Synonyms and related words :
bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, begging, bumming, cadging, deprivation, destitution, empty purse, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impoverishment, indigence, lack, mendicity, moneylessness, mooching, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, panhandling, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, privation, scrounging, sponging, want