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Things poor often describes ("poor ________")
- parents
- soils
- conditions
- fellows
- job
- guy
- wretches
- heart
- households
- choice
- communication
- showing
- boys
- health
- gentleman
- nations
- neighborhoods
- diet
- wretch
- judgment
- lad
- devils
- widow
- control
- skills
- families
- peasants
- record
- kid
- folk
- girls
- countries
- relief
- creatures
- child
- substitute
- housing
- children
- friend
- farmers
- mother
- girl
- quality
- results
- wife
- peasant
- fool
- condition
- opinion
- soil
- nutrition
- chap
- fellow
- dear
- laws
- hygiene
- readers
- outcome
- management
- family
- habits
- devil
- women
- communities
- creature
- boy
- animal
- lady
- men
- woman
- man
- country
- whites
- souls
- rates
- students
- prognosis
- beast
- performance
- design
- father
- people
- soul
- brother
- thing
How poor often is described ("________ poor")
- desperate
- necessitous
- english
- homeless
- undeserving
- illiterate
- elderly
- invisible
- needy
- poorest
- distressed
- metropolitan
- respectable
- anti
- vagrant
- destitute
- aged
- abject
- nonworking
- pious
- infant
- neighbouring
- oppressed
- outdoor
- wretched
- miserable
- immigrant
- excellent
- black
- indigenous
- helpless
- worthy
- casual
- virtuous
- idle
- hungry
- chronically
- humble
- extreme
- unemployed
- ignorant
- honest
- industrious
- irish
- unfortunate
- near
- sick
- indigent
- global
- mexican
- agricultural
- deserving
- houseless
- rural
- migrant
- impotent
- rich
- disreputable
- urban
- absolute
- very
- dependent
- insane
- uneducated
- bodied
- landless
