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Holes Vocabulary Students

The document provides a vocabulary list from chapters 1-4 of the book "Holes" with 15 words and their definitions. It instructs the reader to find sentences using the words from the book and make their own sentences with the words. The words cover topics like threatening situations, prohibitions, heat/humidity, obstacles, relationships between quantities, ancestry, shouting/emotion, determination, neglect, being stranded or left behind, land/buildings, haste, enclosures, cleanliness, and shortage.

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Holes Vocabulary Students

The document provides a vocabulary list from chapters 1-4 of the book "Holes" with 15 words and their definitions. It instructs the reader to find sentences using the words from the book and make their own sentences with the words. The words cover topics like threatening situations, prohibitions, heat/humidity, obstacles, relationships between quantities, ancestry, shouting/emotion, determination, neglect, being stranded or left behind, land/buildings, haste, enclosures, cleanliness, and shortage.

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"Holes," Vocabulary from Chapters 1-4

- Find the sentences in the book where these word are


used and copy them into your notebook.
- Make your own sentences using these words.

hover

1.

- hang, as of something threatening, dark,

or menacing

forbidden excluded from use or mention


stifling characterized by oppressive heat and

2.

3.

humidity

obstacle

4.

- an obstruction that stands in the

way
5.
6.

ratio the relative magnitudes of two quantities


descendant a person considered as
-

coming from some ancestor or race


7.

gruf

- deep and harsh sounding as if from

shouting or emotion
8.

perseverance

- persistent

determination
9.

neglect

- leave undone or leave out

10.
11.
12.
13.

stranded cut of or left behind


premises land and the buildings on it
hastily in a hurried manner
compound an enclosure of residences
-

and other buildings


14.
15.

sanitary free from filth and pathogens


scarcity a small and inadequate amount
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