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| Word | Syllables | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| meager | /x | Adjective, Adjective |
| poor | / | Adjective, Adjective |
| unfruitful | x/x | Adjective, Adjective |
| marginal | /xx | Adjective, Adjective |
| meagre | /x | Adjective, Adjective |
| impoverished | x/x | Adjective |
| rural | /x | Adjective |
| ramshackle | /xx | Adjective |
| backwoods | // | Noun |
| workaday | /xx | Adjective |
| bucolic | x/x | Adjective |
| squalid | /x | Adjective |
| gritty | /x | Noun |
| genteel | x/ | Adjective |
| grimy | /x | Adjective |
| urban | /x | Name |
| craggy | /x | Adjective |
| suburban | x/x | Adjective |
| rugged | /x | Adjective |
| bleak | / | Adjective |
| midwestern | x/x | Name |
| backwater | /xx | Noun |
| downtrodden | x/x | Noun |
| churlish | /x | Adjective |
| gruelling | /x | Adjective |
| difficile | /xx | Noun |
| hard | / | Adjective |
| rough | / | Adjective |
| barren | /x | Adjective |
| trying | /x | Verb |
| crusty | /x | Adjective |
| difficult | /xx | Adjective |
| dreary | /x | Adjective |
| shabby | /x | Adjective |
| crummy | /x | Noun |
| hard up | // | Phrase, Adjective, Verb |
| hungry | /x | Adjective |
| cumbersome | /xx | Adjective |
| sick | / | Adjective |
| strait | / | Noun |
| sour | /x | Adjective |
| gainful | /x | Noun |
| desolate | /xx | Adjective |
| scuffed | / | Adjective |
| scrubby | /x | Adjective |
| scraggly | /x | Adjective |
| inhospitable | x/xxx | Adjective |
| frustrating | /xx | Adjective |
| pathetic | x/x | Adjective |
| harrowing | /xx | Noun |
| seedy | /x | Adjective |
| harsh | / | Adjective |
| miserable | /xxx | Adjective |
| challenging | /xx | Adjective |
| scrub | / | Noun |
| execrable | x/xx | Adjective |
| futile | /x | Adjective |
| fruitless | /x | Adjective |
| unproductive | xx/x | Adjective |
| ungainly | x/x | Adjective |
| waste | / | Noun |
| arid | /x | Noun |
| recalcitrant | x/xx | Adjective |
| scrappy | /x | Adjective |
| dismal | /x | Adjective |
| testing | /x | Noun |
| barbarous | /xx | Adjective |
| grill | / | Noun |
| cramped | / | Adjective |
| forlorn | x/ | Adjective |
| stiff | / | Adjective |
| painful | /x | Adjective |
| wretched | /x | Adjective |
| unenviable | x/xxx | Adjective |
| worn out | // | Phrase, Adjective |
| abject | /x | Adjective |
| peasant | /x | Noun |
| brutal | /x | Adjective |
| wasteful | /x | Adjective |
| dried out | // | Phrase, Adjective |
| messy | /x | Adjective |
| dumpy | /x | Adjective |
| coarse | / | Adjective |
| scant | / | Adjective |
| foul | / | Adjective |
| hopeless | /x | Adjective |
| lousy | /x | Adjective |
| tattered | /x | Adjective |
| silly | /x | Adjective |
| dystopian | //xx | Adjective |
| blighted | /x | Adjective |
| punishing | /xx | Verb |
| scruffy | /x | Adjective |
| deprived | x/ | Verb |
| needy | /x | Adjective |
| cruel | /x | Adjective |
| farm | / | Noun |
| ranch | / | Noun |
| upbringing | /xx | Noun |
| farmer | /x | Noun |
| childhood | /x | Noun |
| beginnings | x/x | Noun |
| existence | x/x | Noun |
| neighborhood | /xx | Noun |
| hills | / | Noun |
| life | / | Noun |
| town | / | Noun |
| land | / | Noun |
| background | /x | Noun |
| country | /x | Noun |
| families | /xx | Noun |
| devastated | /xxx | Adjective |
| midland | /x | Name, Adjective |
| outback | /x | Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb |
| peopled | /x | Adjective |
| plagued | / | Adjective |
| populated | /xxx | Adjective |
| prosperous | /xx | Adjective |
| ravaged | /x | Adjective |
| ridden | /x | Adjective |
| thriving | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| urbanized | /xx | Noun |
| gloss | / | Noun, Verb |
| pidgin | /x | Noun |
| die | / | Verb, Noun |
| fall | / | Verb, Noun |
| blow | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective |
