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Big Idea
Words

Words About the Great Depression

The words in the chart will help you talk and write about the selections in this module.
Which words about the Great Depression or U.S. history have you seen before? Which

words are new to you?

Add to the Vocabulary Network on page 297 by writing synonyms, antonyms, and
related words and phrases for each word about the Great Depression.

After you read each selection in this module, come back to the Vocabulary Network
and keep building it. Add more boxes if you need to.

WORD MEANING CONTEXT SENTENCE

persisted If something persists, it We moved our picnic blanket,
(verb) continues to exist. but the ants persisted in
crawling toward our food.

industry Industry is the work involved Almost everyone growing up
(noun) in the processing of raw in our small town had a job in
materials and then making the coal industry.
them into products in
factories.

stocks If you own stocks in a Dad checks the newspaper
(noun) company, you are entitled to every day to see if the price of
a share in the company’s his stocks is increasing.
profits.

investors Investors are people or In the 1980s, investors were
(noun) organizations that buy stocks excited to buy stocks in the
or shares to receive a profit. new computer company that
offered popular gaming
systems.

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