Holes Vocabulary

shrivel

• wrinkle, shrink up, and get smaller

• to expand and get bigger

• full of water

• a type of lizard

to continue and keep going even though things are hard

• stifling

• convict

• descendent

• persevere

smug

• nothing thinking well of yourself and thinking everyone else is better than you

• a container that you drink out of

• thinking you are better than everyone else

• giving effort and trying hard

to scratch something into a hard surface

• engrave

• evict

• recite

• etch

an irrational fear that someone is out to get you

• glisten

• deftly

• curse

• paranoid

envious

• being picky and only wanting specific things

• wanting something that is not yours

• content, not wanting anything

• having too much of something

something that is clean

• sanitary

• predatory

• expel

• dawdle

doing something slowly because you don't want to do it

• shaft

• etch

• reluctant

• evaporate

ease

• easy and not hard

• difficult and challenging

• shiny because it is wet

• to move quickly

two separatear things that are put together

• arced

• compound

• fossilized

• shaft