2
embarrassment(noun, shame, humiliation, awkwardness, poverty)
2
emptiness(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
2
failure(noun, trouble, hurt, ruin, defeat)
2
grief(noun, trouble, worry, difficulty, depression)
2
misadventure(noun, trouble, hurt, defeat, fall)
2
mishap(noun, trouble, hurt, defeat, fall)
2
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2
ordeal(noun, depression, sadness, gloom, unhappiness)
2
peril(noun, trouble, difficulty, lack, torment)
2
scarceness(noun, lack, deficiency, shortage, dearth)
2
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2
shortfall(noun, want, need, loss, reduction)
2
squalor(noun, depression, sadness, gloom, unhappiness)
2
starvation(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
2
torment(noun, trouble, worry, difficulty, depression)
2
tribulation(noun, trouble, worry, difficulty, depression)
2
woe(noun, depression, sadness, gloom, unhappiness)
1
abjection(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
1
abridgement(noun, want, need, loss, miss)
1
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