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destitution
noun
(des-ti-tu-tion)
the state of being destitute; especially : such extreme want as threatens life unless relieved
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impoverishment
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penury
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starvation
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privation
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squalor
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poverty
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hardship
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wretchedness
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misery
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orphanhood
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poor
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pittance
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shortage
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paucity
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dismissal
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need
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trifle
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want
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despair
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famine
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powerlessness
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oppression
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malnourishment
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alienation
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abasement
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underdevelopment
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inhumanity
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anomie
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dehumanisation
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idleness
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spinsterhood
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ostracism
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brutalisation
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deracination
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anarchy
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peonage
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beggarliness
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barrenness
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stigmatization
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peasantry
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persecution
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underemployment
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improvidence
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kulaks
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wickedness
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welfarism
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repression
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disinheritance
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reclusion
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subsistence farming
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collectivisation
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ruination
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underpopulation
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tyranny
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destitution
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