Dust Bowl Vocabulary

3. to affect the color, taste, etc., of by burning slightly
7. a person or thing that removes dust
8. to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
11. an act or instance of desolating.
12. a period of dry weather, especially a long one that is injurious to crops.
15. to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
16. in a desperate, wild, or frenzied way, out of extreme excitement, pain, fear, etc.

1. extremely or completely dried, as by heat, sun, or wind
2. causing physical pain or distress:
4. strength of physical constitution; power to endure disease, fatigue, privation, etc.
5. a person or animal that migrates.
6. to shrivel; fade; decay
9. a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
10. extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
13. unable to be avoided; inevitable
14. the act of devastating; destruction.