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