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Dust bowl Vocab
Children of the Dust Bowl vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Masonry | brickwork or stonework |
| Cobbler | making or repairing shoes |
| Makeshift | temporary replacement |
| Mediocre | not very good; average |
| Migration | movement from one place to another |
| Denounce | harsh criticism of people in front of other people |
| Adversity | difficulties or misfortunes |
| Ridicule | the act of making fun of someone or something in a cruel or harsh way : mean or unkind comments or behavior |
| Cannery | a factory where food is canned |
| Hostile | unfriendly |
| Mob/Mot | move |
| MOTive | a reason for doing something |
| Tract | pull or draw |
| deTRACT | reduce the strength, value, or importance of something |
| Tend/Tent/Tens | stretch or give |
| exTEND | to cause something, as in your arm or leg, to straighten or stretch out |