Holes Vocabulary Chapters 11-20

having or showing excessive pride in oneself or achievements

• paranoid

• smug

• engraved

• presumably

extremely fearful or suspicious of something or someone

• callused

• intently

• paranoid

• smug

to cut or carve a text or design on the surface of a hard object

• intently

• sprawled

• penetrating

• engraved

eager attention in a concentrated manner

• intently

• sprawled

• presumably

• callused

to make a way through or into something

• penetrating

• engraved

• presumably

• smug

reasonable assumption

• smug

• sprawled

• intently

• presumably

an area of hardened skin on a part of the body

• engraved

• sprawled

• callused

• intently

relaxed position in which one’s arms and legs are spread out

• intently

• callused

• paranoid

• sprawled

to release or loosen

• unclasped

• presumably

• intently

• smug

to find something in the ground by digging

• unclasped

• presumably

• unearthed

• engraved