Children of the Dust Bowl: vocabulary review

The word sanitation means?

• act of maintaining cleanliness from dirt and disease

• action of showing disapproval

• situations where disease spread quickly and affects many people

• without ambition

The word epidemic means?

• act of maintaining cleanliness from dirt and disease

• action of showing disapproval

• situations where disease spread quickly and affects many people

• without ambition

The word opposition means?

• act of maintaining cleanliness from dirt and disease

• action of showing disapproval

• state of being unaccepted

• without ambition

The word rejection means?

• act of maintaining cleanliness from dirt and disease

• action of showing disapproval

• state of being unaccepted

• without ambition

The word shiftless means?

• act of maintaining cleanliness from dirt and disease

• action of showing disapproval

• state of being unaccepted

• without ambition

The students proved________________as they failed to complete assignments.

• opposition

• shiftless

• rejection

• wonderful

The dirty water and mosquitoes lead to __________________on the island.

• opposition

• shiftless

• rejection

• epidemics

______________ turned a polluted river into a clean one where children now swim.

• sanitation

• shiftless

• rejection

• epidemics

If your peers show you __________, you feel unaccepted.

• sanitation

• shiftless

• rejection

• epidemics

The ________showed their disapproval of sixteen year old children getting to vote.

• opposition

• shiftless

• rejection

• epidemics