The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath Glossary

by John Steinbeck

The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath Glossary

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migrant

someone who has arrived to another country

peon

unskilled farm worker.

jimson weed

plant in the nightshade family - smells very bad and has poisonous traits.

shebang

the whole operation

hardship

to undergo deprivation

dignity

to be noble

wrath

fury

hostility

antagonism

petty

trivial

revolutionary

a rebel that goes against the system

unify

to come together

vacant

to become empty

desolation

unhappiness

bitter

resentful

calculated

deliberately

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