5
beggarliness(noun, poverty)
5
famine(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
5
hardship(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
5
homelessness(noun, poverty)
5
mendicancy(noun, poverty)
3
impecuniosity(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, condition)
3
insolvency(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
3
insufficiency(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
3
paucity(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
3
pennilessness(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, condition)
2
penuriousness(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, condition)
2
demand
2
difficulty(noun, pass, distress, failure, depression)
2
meagerness(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
2
motivation
2
motive
2
necessitousness(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
2
pinch(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
2
poor
2
scantiness(noun, need, lack, poverty, absence)
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