Dust Bowl Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. to affect the color, taste, etc., of by burning slightly
  2. 7. a person or thing that removes dust
  3. 8. to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
  4. 11. an act or instance of desolating.
  5. 12. a period of dry weather, especially a long one that is injurious to crops.
  6. 15. to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  7. 16. in a desperate, wild, or frenzied way, out of extreme excitement, pain, fear, etc.
Down
  1. 1. extremely or completely dried, as by heat, sun, or wind
  2. 2. causing physical pain or distress:
  3. 4. strength of physical constitution; power to endure disease, fatigue, privation, etc.
  4. 5. a person or animal that migrates.
  5. 6. to shrivel; fade; decay
  6. 9. a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
  7. 10. extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
  8. 13. unable to be avoided; inevitable
  9. 14. the act of devastating; destruction.