Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 58 rungs 49 ladder 44 unskilled 42 abject poverty 41 downtrodden 41 upper echelons 41 underclass 41 echelons 40 uneducated 40 castes 39 servitude 38 upwardly mobile 38 destitute 38 rung 38 meritocracy 38 backwaters 38 purgatory 37 languishing 37 totem pole 37 nots 37 upper echelon 36 Dalits 36 fringes 36 laborers 36 caste 36 pecking order 36 poverty 36 poorest 36 periphery 35 strata 35 hierarchy 35 oppressed 35 welfare 35 wage earners 35 destitution 35 marginalized 35 inequality 35 ghettos 34 impoverished 34 poorer 34 elite 34 mire 34 stagnated 34 feudal 34 hierarchies 34 lowly 34 squalor 34 toil 34 echelon 34 undeserving 33 elites 33 cushy 33 slum dwellers 33 backwardness 33 socio economic 33 underdeveloped 33 illiterate 33 minorities 33 shunted 33 poverty stricken 32 languish 32 socioeconomic 32 toiling 32 underdevelopment 32 fringe 32 socio 32 poor 32 obscurity 32 misfits 32 exalted 32 mediocrity 32 marginal 32 hinterlands 32 professions 32 ivory tower 31 wages 31 outcasts 31 morass 31 slums 31 peasants 31 backwater 31 greener pastures 31 occupations 31 backward 31 society 31 ghetto 31 beggars 31 middling 31 precarious 31 relegated 31 capitalist 31 landless 31 ladders 31 bottom 30 dwellers 30 globalized 30 cesspool 30 aristocracy 30 underbelly 30 corrupt 30 gainful employment