abandoned, abuse, acid, advocate, aid, aimless, alcohol, alert, alley, anxiety, appearance, area, arrest, assault, assistance, association, avoid, awkward
basement, bearable, befriend, begging, bench, blanket, booze, bridge, broke, broken
care, careful, cart, caseworker, caution, change, chilling, circumstances, clandestine, cloying, coins, cold, collect, companionship, compete, competition, complex, concealed, condition, conditions, crazies, crowding, culture, cup, curb, curiosity, cynic
damaged, danger, dangerous, dank, darkness, death, defeated, depressed, derelict, deserve, desperation, despondent, dirty, disaffiliated, discarded, disdain, disease, disguised, disgust, disinfectant, disinterest, disorder, disorientation, disreputable, distance, distress, distrust, donations, doom, doorway, down-on-one's luck, downtrodden, drag, drugs, drunk, dumpster
edible, elicit, eliminate, encampment, escape, exception
facts, fear, fetid, figure, fix, flea bag hotel, flee, food, footsteps, forgettable, forlorn, formless, freak, free, frustration, funds
garment, garner, glance, glance, grip, groups
hard life, haunt, health, help, helping, hideous, hovel, human, humane, humanity, humble, humiliation, hunger, hurry past
identity, ill-fitting, illness, incoherent, inebriation, infestation, information, informed, insecure, interest, investigate, invisible
jail, jaundice, jobless, joint, jostled, judgment, justice
kitchen
lacking, law, legality, lethargy, liberty, life-changing, liquor, litter, living, loitering, loneliness, looks, loss, lost awareness, lowly, luck
meager, meal, medication, medicine, mental problems, minority, miserable, misunderstanding, money, mound, move, mugging
necessary, needs, newspapers, night, nightmare, nuisance, numbers
odor, official, open air, outdoors, outrage
pain, panhandle, penniless, perspiration, plastic, plastic bags, plight, police, policy, poor, portrayal, position, possessions, poverty, prey, prison, profile, provisions, psychiatrist, public, pursuer
quasi-soiled, query, question
rage, ragged, rats, recovery, regrets, regulation, relief, report, rescue, respect, risk, risky, roaming, robbed, rock-bottom, rough, rueful, ruined, rules, run-in
safety, salvation, save, scars, scary, scene, scent, schizophrenia, schlep, scofflaw, scorn, scrounge, scurry, seamy, secret, seeking, services, shadows, shame, shelter, sheriff, shiver, shortcomings, shrug, shuffle, sick, sickness, sidewalk, sitting, situations, sleeping, smell, smoking, soil, soul, squalor, stains, stale, stench, street, street, stubble, stumble, stupor, subservient, subway, supervision, survival, survive, suspicion, sustenance, swarm, sweat, swig, sympathy
target, tense, terror, threadbare, throwaway, tobacco, tolerance, tough, traffic, trapped, trash, tremor, trudge, trust
unacceptable, unacceptable, unaware, underground, underpass, uneasy, unhealed, unkempt, unlucky, unseen, unshorn, unsteady, untouchable, urban
vagrant, victim, violence, voices, vomit
waft, wander, warmth, watched, waylay, weather, welfare, wine, without, worn out, wound
zero, zilch, zone
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