Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 51 hardscrabble 47 desolate 47 squalor 46 backwoods 44 abject poverty 44 desolation 44 barren landscape 43 privation 43 nomadic lifestyle 43 barren 43 Ozark Mountains 42 destitution 42 grinding poverty 42 lush forests 42 hard scrabble 42 dustbowl 41 ramshackle 41 treeless 40 privations 40 poverty stricken 40 upbringings 40 piney woods 40 rice paddies 40 rough hewn 40 craggy 39 wasteland 39 dusty 39 scrubby 39 shanty 39 sharecropper 39 bleakness 39 wretchedness 39 impoverished 39 destitute 38 rootless 38 sharecroppers 38 swampy 38 idyllic 38 Deserted 38 anomie 38 shiftless 38 windswept 38 idyll 38 wastelands 38 roughneck 38 hills 37 sweat stained 37 subsistence farming 37 pitiless 37 wooden shacks 37 hollows 37 tumbledown 37 badlands 37 indomitable spirit 37 existences 37 upbringing 37 sharecropping 37 jungles 37 hardships 37 paints vivid 37 barefooted 36 harsh realities 36 Impoverished 36 shack 36 scrub brush 36 penniless 36 grimy 36 gritty 36 arid 36 vagabond 36 fatherless 36 nomadic 36 nomadic existence 36 social outcasts 36 childhoods 36 penury 36 raggedy 36 deprivations 36 highlands 36 countryside 36 steppes 36 drifters 36 shanty town 35 backwaters 35 gnarled 35 feudal 35 boondocks 35 thatched huts 35 aridity 35 rugged wilderness 35 grim realities 35 hopelessness 35 bumpkin 35 hovels 35 travails 35 plains 35 shacks 35 itinerant 35 ordeals 35 redoubts 35 stoic