English vocabulary on Holes

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Uncultivated or desolate country

Wasteland

floats or is suspended in air

Hovers

Smothering, suffocating

Stifling

relation between two things

ratio

dreary, unfit for habitation or use

desolate

appeals for evil or injury to befall someone or something

curses

spread out in straggling or disordered fashion

sprawled

writing paper and envelopes

stationery

sterile, dull, unfruit

barren

jargon formed by putting first consonant at the end of a word and adding a syllable

pig latin

instrument that indicates local solar time

sundial

person running away from the law

fugitive

close together, next to

adjacent

sticking, jutting out out

protuding

very hot

fiery

extremely steep or overhanging mass of rock

precipice

deep ditch cut in the earth by running water

gully

saturated, soaked with moisture

soggy

mentally confused

delirious

got smaller

spewed

outlandish, bizzare

grotesque

forced out

shrank

preparations made by mixing ingredients

concoctions

speech characterized by lengthened, drawn-out vowels

drawl

hooking to, connecting

hitching

lacking strength

feeble

systematic examination

investigation

force moving one to do something

urge

beating rapidly or violently; pounding

throbbing

having thickening and hardness of a layer of skin

callused

found guilty

condemned

in terror of, anticipated with fear, alarm, reluctance

dread

twisted, squirmed

writhed

carved, cut, etched into something

engraved

atmospheric moisture, dust, vapor, suspended in air

haze

to move with a whistle or hiss

swish

vehicle with handles, used to convey loads by hand

wheelbarrow