The Great Depression Word Search
Play a The Great Depression word search free online. We built the 12-word list around the terms and ideas of a school subject, then scattered it across a 15×15 grid — horizontal, vertical and diagonal. Find them all to clear the board.
Words to find: DEPRESSION, HOOVERVILLE, DUSTBOWL, BANKRUPT, UNEMPLOYMENT, STOCKMARKET, CRASH, NEWDEAL, ROOSEVELT, TENNESSEEVALLEY, SOCIALSECURITY, HOHUM.
Words run in any of eight directions, backwards included — if one refuses to turn up, try reading the grid right to left.
The Great Depression word list, defined
- DEPRESSION /dɪˈprɛʃən/ · noun
- A state of feeling sad, hopeless, and dejected, especially when severe and prolonged as a mental health condition. Also a long period of severely reduced economic activity, or a hollow area pressed into a surface. Related: melancholy, despondency, dejection, recession.
- BANKRUPT /ˈbæŋkrʌpt/ · noun, adjective
- A person or organization legally declared unable to pay their debts, whose assets are distributed among creditors; as an adjective, describes such an entity or anything depleted of resources. Related: insolvent, broke, ruined, defaulting.
- UNEMPLOYMENT /ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪmənt/ · noun
- The state of being without a paid job, especially when a person is able and seeking work. It can also refer collectively to the condition of a population or economy in which people lack sufficient employment opportunities. Related: joblessness, worklessness, lack of employment.
- CRASH /kræʃ/ · noun, verb
- A violent collision, typically involving a vehicle or aircraft, or a sudden loud noise; as a verb, to collide violently with something or to fail abruptly (as a computer system, business, or market). Related: collision, smash, wreck, pile-up.
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