Kissin' Kate Barlow left Stanley's great-grandfather ____ in the dessert after robbing him of his fortune. He spent there 17 days until he was ____ by a couple of ratlesnake hunters. He was ____ when they found him, completely out of his mind. Nobody knew how he survived, he said that he had found ____ in "God's Thumb" and that's how he stayed safe but this didn't make much sense. At least, his story had a happy ending: after spending a month in hospital, he married one of the ____ that took care of him. The Warden explained that the venom was not dangerous when it was dry, it was perfectly ____. But then, before drying her polish she ____ Mr. Sir across the face, opening three wounds in his cheek. He fell to the floor and ____ in pain, his body twisting and twitching. He was in ____! Stanley wondered if he would die. Stanley didn't understand why Zero had ____ his hole for him. The other boys said that he was like a ____ and that he proabbly ate dirt, like ____. Anyways, Stanley thanked him and since he hadn't had to dig so much he didn't feel ____, he had some energy to teach Zero. It occured to Zero that they could make a ____: he would dig Stanleys hole for an hour if he taught him 5 ____ and 5 small letters each day. Green Lake was stunning in the past! The lake shone right and green in the sun, like an ____. The peach trees bloomed and filled the vowe with colour with their pink ____. People held a picninc on the 4th of July and had fun. Miss Katherine Barlow always won an ____ for her famous ____ peaches. On the morning after the problem with the Warden, Mr. Sir's face had ____ terribly. His cheek was as big as half a ____ and he had three ____ on it from the Warden's scratch. Nobody said anything about it until kid asked what had happened to him. Enraged, Mr. Sir grabbed the boy by the throat and ____ him. Later, on the lake, Stanley felt thirsty. His mouth was completely dry, ____ like the desert but Mr. Sir didn't give him any water. He simply opened the ____ and let the water flow directly onto the earth. Katherine alway bought ____ from Sam. Sam was a good friend, so when Katherine was worried about the ____ in the roof of the ____, the man offered to ____ it. After this she told him that her desk ____, it moved a lot so she couldn't write on it, and the doors were unhinged and the windows didn't close properly. One day, Sam and Katherine kissed and a woman saw them. This was ____, it was prohibited for a black man to kiss a white woman back then, so Trout Walker started looking for Sam to kill him. Katherine found the onion man first and told him they had to escape, they would have to ____ across the lake to his farm. Unfortunately, Trout reached Sam's boat fast and shot him dead, just like he had done with ____. Katherine ____ this situation so much that he became a famous ____ and under the name "Kissin' Kate Barlow" she robbed and killed men, giving them a kiss as a signature, for 20 years. Next day, the ____ on Mr. Sir's face had gone down, but it was still a little ____ . Two of the three marks had ____ ; ____, the middle scratch ____ . It was a jagged purple line, like a tattoo of a ____ . After 20 years, Kate Barlow ____ to Green Lake, which was now a ____. She lived in a cabin for a few days until Trout Walker found her. He wanted to know where her ____ was buried, so he made her walk around the dry lake ____. Stanley had to drink his water ____ because he didn't know who would be driving the water ____ the next time it came. Everytime Mr. Sir. ____ water, he ____ Stanley's straight onto the ground.

[HOLES] Vocabulary ch. 20 - 28

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