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1. desperate need
 2. urgent need
3. critical need
4. pressing need
5. poverty
6. urgency
7. urgent
8. urgently
9. distress
10. needing
 11. nerd
12. bad
13. crisis
14. desperate
15. hardship
16. needy
17. omen
18. strait
19. trouble
20. dear
 21. fat
22. acute
23. adversity
24. black
25. calamitous
26. calamity
27. challenge
28. difficulties
29. difficulty
30. dreary
 31. fatal
32. fearful
33. grave
34. grievous
35. hell
36. hopeless
37. ides
38. portent
39. severe
40. terrible

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