| A | B |
| tarpaulin | a piece of material used for protecting exposed objects or materials |
| discern | to see clearly or recognize |
| citadel | a fortress that commands a city/stronghold |
| jalopy | a dilapidated old vehicle |
| vagrancy | the condition of one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| ostracism | exclusion by general consent from common privileges or social acceptance |
| pustules | a pimple or sore place with pus in it |
| pellagra | an illness caused by poor diet |
| pauper | a very poor person |
| exploited | to make use of meanly or unjustly regards to ones advantage |
| skitters | to have the runs |
| union | a combining of workers for a common cause |
| Hooverville | a shantytown oftemporary dwellings during the depression years in the U.S. |
| Okie | a person or migrant from Oklahoma |
| migrant | one who moves regularly in order to find work in harvesting crops |
| culvert | a big concrete cylinder that is used for drains/a bridge over a culvert |
| agitator | one who stirs up public feeling or controversial issues |
| microcosm | a community or other unity that is amodel of a large unity |
| parole | a conditional release of a prisoner serving an interminable or unexpired sentence |
| stroke | sudden loss of consciousness caused by rupture or blockage of an artery of the brain |