Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 65 eking 58 eke 52 eked 42 destitute 41 destitution 41 abject poverty 39 squeezed 39 squeaked 38 meager 38 wage earners 36 basic necessities 36 subsistence 36 backbreaking 35 starving 35 fixed incomes 35 barely 35 ragged 35 scrounging 35 subsist 35 subsisting 35 poverty 35 penniless 35 urban dwellers 35 toiling 34 poverty stricken 34 squeezing 34 shoestring 34 losing 34 extreme poverty 34 marooned 34 shoestring budget 34 incomes 34 hamlets 33 miserable 33 living 33 villages 33 unemployed 33 precariously 33 hinterlands 33 laboring 33 depriving 32 perilously 32 livelihood 32 refugee camps 32 deprived 32 grinding poverty 32 menial jobs 32 livelihoods 32 cruised 32 malnourished 32 lowly 32 coasted 32 starve 32 impoverished 32 dole 31 clung 31 poorest 31 toughed 31 pounded 31 slogging 31 illiterate 31 food stamps 31 lonely 31 wage earner 31 jobless 31 rations 31 makeshift shelters 31 clawing 31 huts 30 downtrodden 30 squeaking 30 toil 30 walloped 30 necessities 30 squeak 30 food rations 30 romped 30 trounced 30 coasting 30 poor 30 shacks 30 struggling 30 margin 30 soundly beaten 30 persevered 30 impoverishment 30 soundly defeated 30 unaffordable 30 crushing 30 slums 30 tantalizingly close 30 hardships 30 clinging 30 toiled 29 earning 29 pocketed 29 scrape 29 drubbed 29 losses 29 peasants 29 enclaves