Holes Vocab Part 1
It's a flat structure built along the shore of a river or oceans for ships to load and unload cargo or passengers
What is a wharf
When something spends time idly; to move or act too slowly.
What does it mean to dawdle?
When something is removed by digging or scooping out.
What is excavated?
The border or outer boundary.
What is perimeter?
Great in size, amount, or extent.
What is vast?
To have motioned with the hands, head, or body.
What is gestured?
Closely or firmly packed or joined together.
What is compacted?
The good qualities of a person that usually include moral or emotional strength,honesty, and fairness.
What is character?
People related to a person or group of people who lived in the past.
What are descendants?
A young person;youth.
What is a juvenile?
The act of discharging or ejecting.
What is expelling?
Paper that is used for writing letters and that usually has matching envelopes.
What is stationary?
Appearing sad or lonely; nearly hopeless.
What is forlorn?
A wide open extent, as of land or sky.
What is expanse?
Quickly and skillfully.
What is deftly?
An enclosed area that contains a group of buildings.
What is a compound?
Unoccupied or empty space.
What are vacancies?
Having asked for someone or something to come;to have sent for or called.
What is summoned?
Steady persistence.
What is perseverance?
Rarity;shortage.
What is scarcity?
Very hot or stuffy almost to the point of being suffocating.
What is stifling?
Beyond all reason;absurd
What is preposterous?
A faucet for controlling the flow of liquid from a pipe.
What is a spigot?
Deserted;barren;lifeless
What is desolate?
Having made a facial expression of pain and or disgust.
What is grimaced?