yes there are a few throughout the book
Tunnels is a creative well-written book.
To increase your vocabulary, try a dictionary.
Vocabulary is the basis of language. Your vocabulary is simply the number of words that you know. The bigger your vocabulary, the better you will be able to communicate, and to understand. Reading is one good way to improve your vocabulary.
I would say to read a eight grade book that most eight graders can read then go through the book and find eight grade words that you think would be approupriete for them. <3 :)
indefatigable
To have a large vocabulary. To be expert in using appropriate words. To have good command over using words.
One way to know how large your vocabulary is in a foreign language is to count how many words you are confident of. Paying close attention to lessons is a good way to learn and frequent practice is needed to maintain or even add to a good vocabulary.
Only Hutch wasn't the shortstop. Darryl was.
I accepted my teacher's challenge to write my own example sentences for vocabulary words.
It is good for relaxation and imagination. It also helps with increasing your vocabulary and it helps with spelling too.
Here are some excellent vocabulary words from Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None: austere, adroit, aversion, ascend, assuage, capricious, desultory, evasive, futile, fraternize, impromptu, inert, laconic, malevolence, monotonous, maudlin, replete, sagacious, scrupulous, surreptitious, tumultuous, tacit, vehement, verisimilitude
There are many books, but my favorites were a living nightmare, the vampire's assistant and tunnels of blood! I think you would like them all!