state; state of affairs; appearance; look; sign; indication
something; some; somehow; for some reason; (is there) something (you want, etc.)
troublesome matter; burden; difficult task; chore; hassle
living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood
indispensable; essential; requisite; required; compulsory; necessary
necessities; necessary article; requisite; essentials
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
trend; tendency; movement; attitude
movement; move; motion; trend; development; change
direct connection; direct link
price; cost; value; worth; value
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
short supply; supply shortage
excess; surplus; superabundance
crop; crops; (agricultural) produce; farm products
domestic animals; livestock; cattle
to drain; to pour; to wash away; to distribute (e.g. electricity over wires, music over a PA system, etc.); to circulate; to cruise (e.g. taxi); to float
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to
crops; agricultural produce
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
such; like that; that sort of; very
natural calamity; disaster
insufficiency; deficiency; shortage; dissatisfaction; discontent; complaint
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
itself; one's own body; oneself; originally; naturally
to change; to be transformed; to move to; to be different; to be uncommon
few; a little; scarce; insufficient; seldom
to join (hands); to take (each other's hands); to scramble for; to struggle for; to pay attention to; to take notice of
a few years ago; some years back
scale; scope; plan; structure
cold-weather damage (to crops)
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
in so doing; when you do so; in this regard; on this occasion; some time during that period
securing; obtaining; ensuring; belay; belaying
being in dire distress; being hard put to it; the four and eight kinds of suffering
to buy all (of something) one can get one's hands on; to buy up; to scoop up