Holes Vocabulary Chapters 1-15

to wrinkle or become smaller due to the lack of moisture

• evaporated

• shriveled

a person who guards or protects something or someone

• warden

• radiated

one who comes from an ancestor or ancestors

• descendants

• barren

determination to continue an action, task, or belief

• engraved

• perseverance

without the things that are necessary for life

• desolate

• authority

shortage, lacking

• warden

• scarcity

tired; fatigued

• wearily

• radiated

change into vapor

• desolate

• evaporated

send out rays or waves

• radiated

• engraved

-completely wanting or lacking

-providing no shelter or sustenance

• wearily

• barren