| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Ingenuity | cleverness, inventiveness, resourcefulness |
| Dwelling | a house or home |
| Feverishly | done with great excitement or activity |
| Disreputable | lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance |
| Pauperize | to make poor |
| Racketeering | making money in a dishonest way selling worthless items |
| Prosperous | successful; rich; affluent; well-to-do; well-off |
| Lament | to regret strongly OR to mourn or to express sorrow in a demonstrative manner |
| great depression | the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s |
| recession | economic slump or downturn |
| bankruptcy | financial failure caused by an inability to pay one's debts |
| black tuesday | October 29th, 1929: the day when prices in the stock market took a steep dive, plunging over $10 million dollars |
| buying on margin | buying stock on credit (with 1,000 and investor could buy 10,000 worth of stock with the remaining as a loan |
| drought | a long period without rain |
| laissez-faire | a policy based on the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in the economy |
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