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oppression
oppression
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oppression
WORDS RELATED TO
OPPRESSION
mournfulness
noun
gloom
anguish
bitterness
blue devils
blue funk
blues
catatonia
chagrin
cheerlessness
dejection
depression
desolation
despair
despondence
despondency
disconsolateness
discouragement
dismals
distress
doldrums
dolefulness
dolor
downheartedness
dullness
dumps
dysphoria
foreboding
funk
glumness
grief
heaviness
heavy-heartedness
horror
low spirits
malaise
melancholy
misery
misgiving
mope
mopes
morbidity
mourning
oppression
pensiveness
pessimism
sadness
saturninity
sorrow
unhappiness
vexation
weariness
woe
onus
noun
burden
bar sinister
black eye
blame
blot
blur
brand
charge
culpability
deadweight
duty
encumbrance
fault
guilt
incubus
liability
load
millstone
obligation
odium
oppression
responsibility
slur
spot
stain
stigma
task
tax
weight
persecution
noun
affliction
annoyance
banishment
bashing
exile
expulsion
galling
ill-treatment
imprisonment
infliction
killing
maltreatment
massacre
mistreatment
murder
oppression
pestering
provoking
teasing
torment
torture
pinch
noun
predicament
box
clutch
contingency
crisis
crunch
difficulty
emergency
exigency
hardship
juncture
necessity
oppression
pass
plight
pressure
strait
stress
tight spot
tight squeeze
turning point
zero hour
repression
noun
constraint
control
oppression
restraint
suppression
stress
noun
physical or mental pressure
affliction
agony
alarm
albatross
anxiety
apprehensiveness
burden
clutch
crunch
disquiet
disquietude
distention
draw
dread
expectancy
extension
fear
fearfulness
ferment
flutter
force
hardship
hassle
heat
impatience
intensity
misgiving
mistrust
nervous tension
nervousness
oppression
overextension
passion
protraction
pull
restlessness
spring
strain
stretch
tautness
tenseness
tension
tensity
tightness
traction
trauma
trepidation
trial
urgency
worry
stresses
noun
physical or mental pressure
affliction
agony
alarm
albatross
anxiety
apprehensiveness
burden
clutch
crunch
disquiet
disquietude
distention
draw
dread
expectancy
extension
fear
fearfulness
ferment
flutter
force
hardship
hassle
heat
impatience
intensity
misgiving
mistrust
nervous tension
nervousness
oppression
overextension
passion
protraction
pull
restlessness
spring
strain
stretch
tautness
tenseness
tension
tensity
tightness
traction
trauma
trepidation
trial
urgency
worry
tribulation
noun
pain, unhappiness
adversity
affliction
albatross
bad luck
blow
bummer
burden
care
cross to bear
crucible
curse
difficulty
distress
double whammy
downer
drag
grief
hard knock
hard time
headache
heartache
misery
misfortune
oppression
ordeal
persecution
rainy day
reverse
sorrow
suffering
trial
trouble
vexation
visitation
woe
worry
wretchedness
wronging
tyranny
noun
dictatorship
absolutism
authoritarianism
autocracy
coercion
cruelty
despotism
domination
fascism
high-handedness
imperiousness
monocracy
oligarchy
oppression
peremptoriness
reign of terror
severity
terrorism
totalitarianism
totality
unreasonableness
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