Holes End-of-Novel Vocabulary Review

skillfully

• destiny
• wearily
• retrieve
• deftly

in a tired, exhausted manner

• preposterous
• dawdle
• wearily
• defective

to dig up soil

• excavate
• retrieve
• dawdle
• destiny

ridiculous

• despicable
• defective
• preposterous
• forlorn

quite disgusting or worthless

• preposterous
• excavate
• deftly
• despicable

something that cannot be changed by man

• destiny
• excavate
• preposterous
• deftly

with one's attention sharply focused on something

• glisten
• venom
• stationery
• intently

poison from an animal such as a snake

• toxic
• venom
• glisten
• recede

found guilty and sentenced to punishment

• condemned
• afflict
• defiance
• toxic

barren; showing no signs of life

• defiance
• deftly
• destiny
• desolate