Holes Chapters 21-30

The folks of Green Lake were afraid to take chances. They would get regular medicine from Doc Hawthorn and onion _____ from Sam.

• concoctions

• compound

"I found refuge in God's thumb." No one ever knew what he meant by that. He was _____ when he said it.

• delirious

• depriving

Mr. Sir was no longer _____ him of water. After having to get by on less water for a week or so, Stanley now felt like he had all the water he could want.

• mocked

• depriving

No one ever said anything except "Thank you, Mr. Sir" as he filled each canteen. No one even dared to look at his _____ face.

• grotesque

• spewed

"Just calm your pretty self down a second," the sheriff said in a slow _____. "And tell me what you're talking about."

• parched

• drawl

Sam also had many different _____, lotions, syrups, and pastes all made out of onion juice and different parts of the onion plant.

• compound

• ointments

Stanley had also tried to explain that he needed to save his energy so he could teach Zero how to read, but the other boys just _____ him.

• mocked

• parched

Everyone in town had seen, -and heard- the Walker's new boat. It made a horrible loud noise and _____ ugly black smoke over the beautiful lake.

• lurched

• spewed

As Stanley waited, he ran his tongue over the roof of his mouth and inside his cheeks. His mouth was as dry and as _____ as the lake.

• parched

• rigid

He had an incurable foot fungus. In fact, it was the same foot fungus that a hundred and ten years later would _____ the famous ballplayer, Clyde Livingston.

• systematic

• afflict