Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 44 impoverished 42 destitute 39 abject poverty 38 poverty stricken 35 shantytown 35 obscurity 35 peasant 35 bootstraps 34 fatherless 33 relative obscurity 33 grinding poverty 32 sharecropper 32 indomitable spirit 32 homeless 32 slums 31 shantytowns 31 jobless 31 hardscrabble 31 poorest continent 31 slum 31 humble beginnings 31 extreme poverty 31 poverty 31 violence wracked 30 penniless 30 undernourished 30 joblessness 30 authoritarian rule 30 illiterate 30 pluck 30 downtrodden 30 peasants 30 reclusive 29 unemployed 29 shanty towns 29 communist 29 destitution 29 despair 28 US backed 28 landless 28 microcredit 28 subsistence farmers 28 elder statesman 28 menial jobs 28 stardom 28 preventable diseases 28 elderly 28 AIDS orphans 27 Western Hemisphere poorest 27 poorest 27 superstardom 27 rungs 27 malnourished 27 ex Soviet republic 27 former Portuguese colony 27 overcome adversity 27 orphans 27 exalted 26 peasant farmers 26 penury 26 underprivileged 26 malnutrition 26 shanty 26 barrio 26 sub Saharan Africa 26 underclass 26 refugee camp 26 mentally handicapped 26 frail 26 Billboard charts 26 quake ravaged 26 earthquake ravaged 26 shanties 25 breadwinners 25 overachievers 25 barrios 25 favelas 25 bedridden 25 WTA rankings 25 incomes 25 vagrant 25 beggar 25 prominence 25 homeless shelters 25 indomitable 25 recluse 25 ATP rankings 25 food rations 25 hinterlands 24 sharecroppers 24 meteoric 24 misfits 24 elite 24 rags 24 migrant 24 malnourishment 24 orphaned 24 billionaires 24 prodigies 24 unheralded 24 oppressed