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COTDB
Children of the Dust Bowl Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| migrants | a person who moves from place to place especially in order to find work |
| unemployment | a situation where a person is looking for work but can't find any |
| unprofitable | not making financial gain |
| hardship | severe suffering |
| bountiful | large in quantity; abundant |
| barren | lifeless |
| despair | the complete loss or absence of hope |
| squatter | a settler with no legal title to the land they occupy |
| squatter community | a group of people without legal claim to the land they occupy |
| injustice | lack of fairness |
| squalor | the state of being extremely dirty as a result of poverty |
| humanized | give something a human character |
| memorable | worth remembering because of being special or unusual |
| preserve | maintain something in its original state |
| empathy | the ability to understand and share the feelings of another |
| opposition | resistance or dissent in action or argument |
| blurb | a short description of a book written of the back cover |
| acceptance | the act of being received as adequate or suitable |
| trait | a distinguishing quality or characteristic |
| self-sufficient | needing no outside help to satisfy one's basic needs |
| prediction | to indicate in advance of an observation |
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