Vocabulary: Holes Chapter 1-8

Contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous

• Preposterous 
• Defective
• Barren
• Convicted

A lack of something

• Forlorn
• Preposterous
• Scarcity
• Wasteland 

a lawyer; a person who is trained to give legal advice

• secretary

• paralegal

• attorney

• friend

desolate

• barren and deserted
• having a flaw
• suffocating
• carved into a hard surface

Very hot, causing difficulties breathing

• Barren

• Stifling

• Ease

• Wearily

Deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness

• Barren
• Desolate
• Wasteland
• Defective 

Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely

• Desperate
• Forlorn
• Discouraged
• Enviously

Define descendants

• people who come from certain ancestors

• producing no plants, fruit, or offspring

• The descendants of Stanley's family originated from Latvia.

• producing no plants, fruit, or offspring

Not guilty of doing, knowing, or saying something

• juvenile

• inventor

• blisters

• innocent

A young person who is not yet an adult, according to the law

• warden

• inventor

• juvenile

• lizards