Holes Chapter 26-50 Vocabulary

Steady persistance

• perseverance

• withering

• stifling

• delirious

squirming, as if in pain

• astonishment

• delirious

• stifling

• writhing

great surprise

• astonishment

• delirious

• perseverance

• writhing

suffocating

• astonishment

• delirious

• perseverance

• stifling

temporarily mentally unstable

• perseverance

• delirious

• astonishment

• stifling

The thirsty hiker thought that he saw a lake, but was disappointed to discover that it was only a __________.

• stifling

• mirage

• riot

• delirious

The judge called the criminal's crime _________, and gave him a harsh sentence for it.

• stifling

• delirious

• despicable

• riot

My parents were __________ when my teacher called home to tell them I was suspended.

• defective

• riot

• outraged

• hazy

Choose the antonym of desolate.

• empty

• relaxed

• bad

• flourishing

Chose the best synonym for tedious.

• quick

• happy

• tiresome

• unclear