13
poverty(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
10
impoverishment(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
8
meagerness(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
8
need(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
8
want(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
7
destitution(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
7
indigence(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
7
penury(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
7
privation(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
7
scantiness(noun, need, lack, absence)
6
distress(noun, pass, difficulty, failure, want)
6
exiguity(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
6
meagreness
6
meanness(noun, wickedness, depravity)
5
hardship(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
5
inferiority(noun, weakness, wickedness, depravity)
5
insolvency(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
5
insufficiency(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
5
lack(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
5
necessity(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
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