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Poor :: Poor (superl.) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings..

Depauperate :: Depauperate (v. t. & i.) To make poor; to impoverish.

Almshouse :: Almshouse (n.) A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.

Beggarly :: Beggarly (a.) In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible..

Hungry :: Hungry (superl.) Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil..

Bunchy :: Bunchy (a.) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine..

Impoverish :: Impoverish (v. t.) To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families..

Slum :: Slum (n.) A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives..

Poorly :: Poorly (adv.) Meanly; without spirit.

Perform :: Perform (v. i.) To do, execute, or accomplish something; to acquit one's self in any business; esp., to represent sometimes by action; to act a part; to play on a musical instrument; as, the players perform poorly; the musician performs on the organ..

Hovel :: Hovel (n.) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut..

Poor :: Poor (superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt..

Down :: Down (prep.) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural..

Charitable :: Charitable (a.) Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent.

Lopsided :: Lopsided (a.) Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; full of idiosyncrasies.

Overseer :: Overseer (n.) One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways..

Land-poor :: Land-poor (a.) Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.

Sporades :: Spoor (v. i.) To follow a spoor or trail.

Woful :: Woful (a.) Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.

Sandhiller :: Sandhiller (n.) A nickname given to any poor white living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina..

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