Holes Full Novel Vocabulary TEST

What word describes a feeling of abandonment and hopelessness?

• Defiance

• Forlorn

• Senseless

• Grotesque

• Resent

Which term refers to extreme distrust of others?

• Perseverance

• Paranoid

• Vile

• Unthinkable

• Selfish

Identify the word that means: bold resistance to authority.

• Condemned

• Incarcerated

• Fugitive

• Defiance

• Obstacle

Which term describes something that cannot be healed or corrected?

• Incurable

• Tarnation

• Throbbing

• Obstacle

• Contaminate

What word is used to indicate something that is (a)   or not allowed?

• Forbidden
• Despicable
• Worthless
• Precarious
• Senseless

Match the following terms with their correct descriptions.

• The material used to cushion and cover furniture.

• Perseverance

• Relating to or denoting an animal or animals preying naturally on others.

• Defective

• The quality of steady persistence and determination.

• Upholstery

• Faulty or imperfect.

• Predatory

Which word refers to an undersized individual, particularly among animals?

• Grotesque

• Testified

• Runt

• Bacteria

• Rut

Identify the term that means imperfection, blemish;

a spot or mark (as of color or ink) especially when large or irregular

• Blotchy
• Contaminate

• Precarious

• Grotesque

• Fungus

What word is used to describe something absurd or contrary to reason?

• Frustrated

• Desolate

• Preposterous

• Forbidden

• Senseless

Which term describes a deserted, barren, or lifeless place?

• Perseverance

• Desolate

• Gully

• Weathered

• Jurisdiction