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| Word | Syllables | Categories | 
|---|---|---|
| powerless | /xx  | Adjective, Adjective  | 
| hopeless | /x  | Adjective, Adjective  | 
| weak | /  | Adjective, Adjective  | 
| lost | /  | Adjective, Adjective  | 
| dependent | x/x  | Adjective, Adjective  | 
| incapacitated | xx/xxx  | Adjective, Adjective, Verb  | 
| defenseless | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| impotent | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| pitiable | /xxx  | Adjective  | 
| vulnerable | /xxx  | Adjective  | 
| frightened | /x  | Adjective  | 
| bewildered | x/x  | Verb  | 
| dazed | /  | Verb  | 
| desperate | /x  | Adjective  | 
| forlorn | x/  | Adjective  | 
| hapless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| clueless | /x  | Noun  | 
| pitiful | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| dejected | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| paralyzed | /xx  | Verb  | 
| wretched | /x  | Adjective  | 
| disempowered | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| distraught | x/  | Adjective  | 
| stupefied | /xx  | Verb  | 
| pathetic | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| apathetic | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| innocents | /xx  | Noun  | 
| ineffectual | xx/xx  | Adjective  | 
| miserable | /xxx  | Adjective  | 
| traumatized | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| motionless | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| needy | /x  | Adjective  | 
| feeble | /x  | Adjective  | 
| fearful | /x  | Adjective  | 
| cripples | /x  | Noun  | 
| paralysed | x/x  | Verb  | 
| impoverished | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| debilitated | x/xxx  | Adjective  | 
| downtrodden | x/x  | Noun  | 
| motherless | /xx  | Noun  | 
| befuddled | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| disoriented | x/xxx  | Verb  | 
| victimized | /xx  | Verb  | 
| oppressed | x/  | Adjective  | 
| destitute | /xx  | Noun  | 
| immobile | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| frail | /  | Adjective  | 
| timid | /x  | Adjective  | 
| heartless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| frustrated | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| feckless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| friendless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| sick | /  | Adjective  | 
| terrified | /xx  | Verb  | 
| docile | /x  | Adjective  | 
| despairing | x/x  | Noun  | 
| sightless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| indifferent | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| brutalized | /xx  | Verb  | 
| hopelessly | /xx  | Adverb  | 
| voiceless | /x  | Noun  | 
| dumbstruck | /x  | Adjective  | 
| listless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| overwhelmed | xx/  | Verb  | 
| ignorant | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| weakling | /x  | Noun  | 
| whimpering | /xx  | Verb  | 
| angry | /x  | Adjective  | 
| inept | x/  | Adjective  | 
| lifeless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| useless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| unprepared | xx/  | Adjective  | 
| dispirited | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| humiliated | x/xxx  | Verb  | 
| uncaring | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| uneducated | x/xxx  | Adjective  | 
| lonely | /x  | Adjective  | 
| poor | /  | Adjective  | 
| enraged | x/  | Adjective  | 
| uninterested | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| traumatised | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| unsympathetic | xxx/x  | Adjective  | 
| sickly | /x  | Adjective  | 
| unfeeling | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| depraved | x/  | Adjective  | 
| catatonic | xx/x  | Noun  | 
| cowering | /xx  | Noun  | 
| contemptible | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| abject | /x  | Adjective  | 
| unconcerned | xx/  | Adjective  | 
| maddened | /x  | Verb  | 
| scared | /  | Verb  | 
| hungry | /x  | Adjective  | 
| pained | /  | Verb  | 
| disorientated | xxxxxx  | Verb  | 
| complacent | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| senseless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| speechless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| invincible | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| unwilling | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| unconscious | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| inarticulate | xx/xx  | Adjective  | 
| comatose | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| heartbroken | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| wretches | /x  | Noun  | 
| incompetent | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| cowed | /  | Verb  | 
| confused | x/  | Verb  | 
| unhappy | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| trapped | /  | Adjective  | 
| deluded | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| immobilized | x/xx  | Verb  | 
| penniless | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| worthless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| disinterested | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| forsaken | x/x  | Verb  | 
| silly | /x  | Adjective  | 
| unnerved | x/  | Adjective  | 
| enfeebled | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| incapable | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| stunned | /  | Verb  | 
| beaten | /x  | Verb  | 
| tender | /x  | Noun  | 
| unable | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| craven | /x  | Noun  | 
| luckless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| passive | /x  | Adjective  | 
| insecure | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| hurt | /  | Noun  | 
| coward | /x  | Noun  | 
| prostrate | /x  | Adjective  | 
| infirm | x/  | Noun  | 
| ridden | /x  | Adjective  | 
| woeful | /x  | Adjective  | 
| toothless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| meek | /  | Noun  | 
| spineless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| paralytic | xx/x  | Noun  | 
| pawns | /  | Noun  | 
| invalids | /xx  | Noun  | 
| trussed | /  | Verb  | 
| adrift | x/  | Adverb  | 
| shrug | /  | Noun  | 
| giggles | /x  | Noun  | 
| victims | /x  | Noun  | 
| babes | /  | Noun  | 
| captive | /x  | Noun  | 
| onlooker | /xx  | Noun  | 
| orphans | /x  | Noun  | 
| disarmed | x/  | Verb  | 
| plaything | /x  | Noun  | 
| waif | /  | Noun  | 
| harassed | x/  | Verb  | 
| bystander | /xx  | Noun  | 
| imbecility | /x/xx  | Noun  | 
| rage | /  | Noun  | 
| adulteress | x/x/  | Noun  | 
| benign | x/  | Adjective  | 
| brave | /  | Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| bright | /  | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb  | 
| clumsy | /x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| defence | x/  | Noun, Verb  | 
| demented | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| disadvantaged | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| distress | x/  | Noun, Verb  | 
| easy | /x  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| emaciated | x/xxx  | Adjective  | 
| far | /  | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun  | 
| foreplay | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| futile | /x  | Adjective  | 
| gay | /  | Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb  | 
| great | /  | Adjective, Noun, Adverb  | 
| happy | /x  | Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| harmless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| homeless | /x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| imperial | x/xx  | Adjective, Name  | 
| indigent | /xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| ineffective | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| innocuous | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| inoffensive | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| isolated | /xxx  | Adjective  | 
| jolly | /x  | Adjective, Name, Adverb, Verb  | 
| less | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun  | 
| low | /  | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb  | 
| malnourished | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| merry | /x  | Adjective, Name  | 
| needless | /x  | Adjective, Adverb  | 
| nice | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| pointless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| sexless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| shopper | /x  | Noun  | 
| stranded | /x  | Adjective  | 
| strange | /  | Adjective, Verb, Noun  | 
| susceptible | x/xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| sweet | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| unarmed | x/  | Adjective  | 
| undernourished | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| underprivileged | /x/x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| unnecessary | x/xxx  | Adjective  | 
| unprotected | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| wild | /  | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb  | 
| yon | /  | Noun, Adverb  | 
| stonewall | /x  | Name, Verb, Adjective  | 
| shirtless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| bulletproof | /xx  | Adjective, Verb  | 
| no | /  | Noun, Adverb, Adjective  | 
| anymore | xx/  | Adverb  | 
| sorta | /x  | Adverb  | 
| literally | /xxx  | Adverb  | 
| milestone | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
