Word List Homeless 340 words

Homeless Vocabulary Word List (340)

  • A

    abandoned, abuse, acid, advocate, aid, aimless, alcohol, alert, alley, anxiety, appearance, area, arrest, assault, assistance, association, avoid, awkward

  • B

    basement, bearable, befriend, begging, bench, blanket, booze, bridge, broke, broken

  • C

    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

  • D

    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

  • E

    edible, elicit, eliminate, encampment, escape, exception

  • F

    facts, fear, fetid, figure, fix, flea bag hotel, flee, food, footsteps, forgettable, forlorn, formless, freak, free, frustration, funds

  • G

    garment, garner, glance, glance, grip, groups

  • H

    hard life, haunt, health, help, helping, hideous, hovel, human, humane, humanity, humble, humiliation, hunger, hurry past

  • I

    identity, ill-fitting, illness, incoherent, inebriation, infestation, information, informed, insecure, interest, investigate, invisible

  • J

    jail, jaundice, jobless, joint, jostled, judgment, justice

  • K

    kitchen

  • L

    lacking, law, legality, lethargy, liberty, life-changing, liquor, litter, living, loitering, loneliness, looks, loss, lost awareness, lowly, luck

  • M

    meager, meal, medication, medicine, mental problems, minority, miserable, misunderstanding, money, mound, move, mugging

  • N

    necessary, needs, newspapers, night, nightmare, nuisance, numbers

  • O

    odor, official, open air, outdoors, outrage

  • P

    pain, panhandle, penniless, perspiration, plastic, plastic bags, plight, police, policy, poor, portrayal, position, possessions, poverty, prey, prison, profile, provisions, psychiatrist, public, pursuer

  • Q

    quasi-soiled, query, question

  • R

    rage, ragged, rats, recovery, regrets, regulation, relief, report, rescue, respect, risk, risky, roaming, robbed, rock-bottom, rough, rueful, ruined, rules, run-in

  • S

    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

  • T

    target, tense, terror, threadbare, throwaway, tobacco, tolerance, tough, traffic, trapped, trash, tremor, trudge, trust

  • U

    unacceptable, unacceptable, unaware, underground, underpass, uneasy, unhealed, unkempt, unlucky, unseen, unshorn, unsteady, untouchable, urban

  • V

    vagrant, victim, violence, voices, vomit

  • W

    waft, wander, warmth, watched, waylay, weather, welfare, wine, without, worn out, wound

  • X

  • Y

  • Z

    zero, zilch, zone

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