Holes Vocabulary Quiz Week 1+2

What does 'stifling' mean?

• oppressive heat and humidity

• a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• a small and inadequate amount

What does 'desolate' mean?

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• a small and inadequate amount

• marked by or showing hopelessness

• incongruous;inviting ridicule

What does 'forlorn' mean?

• marked by or showing hopelessness

• incongruous;inviting ridicule

• someone who offers opposition

• capable of being foretold

What does 'adversary' mean?

• someone who offers opposition

• capable of being foretold

• oppressive heat and humidity

• a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race

What word makes sense in the sentence?

Many people in this area are ___________ of German immigrants.

descendants

adversaries

predictable

preposterous

What word makes sense in the sentence?

In times of ________, lions will travel great distances in search of food.

stifling

desolate

scarcity

forlorn

What word makes sense in the sentence?

It was a ___________ idea, and no one took it seriously.

stifling

descendant

predictable

preposterous

What word makes the sense in the sentence?

Recent changes make the future even less ___________.

stifling

desolate

predictable

preposterous

What does 'intently' mean?

• an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

• with strained or eager attention

• the state of being more than full

• expel or eject without recourse to legal process

What does 'evict' mean?

• the state of being more than full

• expel or eject without recourse to legal process

• an irrational and obsessive distrust of others

• express strong disapproval of