Today's Word "hardscrabble"
Marked by poverty
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hardscrabble \HARD-skrab-uhl\ (adjective) - 1 : Yielding a bare or meager living with great labor or difficulty. 2 : Marked by poverty.
"The hardscrabble land was such that few wanted to come and live in the area in spite of the government's incentives."
Hardscrabble is formed from hard (from Old English heard) + scrabble (from Dutch schrabbelen, "to scratch").