plagued, bedeviled, wracked, dogged, riven, marred, buffeted, hamstrung, mired, riddled, hampered, hobbled, exacerbated, compounded, overshadowed, stymied, crippled, ravaged, decimated, clouded, burdened, hindered, blighted, roiled, grappling, afflicted, beleaguering, faced, sapped, rocked, battered, fraught, undermined, reeling, endured, caused, overcome, besieged, tarnished, saddled, punctuated, shadowed, enveloped, ridden, fueled, sidetracked, spawned, derailed, sullied, wrought, convulsed, embroiled, battling, gripped, awash, dealing, waylaid, nagged, scarred, shaken, confounded, felled, struggling, magnified, confronting, befallen, amid, pockmarked, wearied, scuttled, tormented, vexed, undone, weathered, foundering, stung, unnerved, hounded, occasioned, worsened, dominated, engulfed, pummeled, spurred, led, accentuated, stifled, characterized, enmeshed, suffers, pocked, engendered, troubled, doomed, haunted, overtaken, surrounded, aggravated, lingering, ensnared, undeterred, beclouded, most, african, vis, muslim, presentday, american, asian, needy, older, aboriginal, affluent, conclusion, hispanic, latinamerican, manv, multiracial, preindustrial, underclass, 1950s

goad, needle, nettle, representation

catchweed, cleavers, clivers, commonsensical, embattled, encounter, galium aparine, goose grass, precarious, run into, shaky, spring cleavers, untroubled

adorn, annoy, assail, assault, attack, beautify, bother, decorate, devil, embellish, get at, get to, grace, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, ornament, rag, rile, set on, vex

chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, encrust, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke, set upon