| A | B |
|---|
| Adversity | Difficulties or misfortune |
| Denunciation | Harsh criticism of people in front of other people |
| Dirty Thirties | Period of time when the Dust Bowl occured |
| Dry Farmers | Farmers without irrigation systems |
| Dysentery | A disease characterized by extreme diarrhea |
| Great Depression | Period in the 1930s when most people lived in poverty |
| Jalopy | An old car in bad condition |
| Migration | Movement from one place to another |
| Mother Road | The Okie's name for Route 66 |
| Norther | A wind or storm from the north |
| Okie | Person from OK; often used an insult in California for any migrant from the Dust Bowl region |
| Panhandle | Thin strip of OK between Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico heavily affected by the Dust Bowl |
| Pneumonia | Infection in a person's lungs |
| Ramshackle | Run-down and in need of repair |
| Squalor | Describes something dirty and filthy because of being poor |
| Trance | A dream or daze |
