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  • 61lack — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. want, deficiency, shortage, need. v. t. need, require. See insufficiency, poverty.Ant., sufficiency. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The state of being lacking] Syn. destitution, absence, need, dearth,… …

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  • 62narrowness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Restricted width Nouns 1. narrowness, closeness, exiguity, littleness; thinness, tenuity, emaciation; narrowing; tapering, contraction; finger s or hair s breadth, line; strip, streak, vein. 2. shaving,… …

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  • 63poverty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of money Nouns 1. poverty, impecuniousness, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want, poverty line or level; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties; bad, poor, or …

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  • 64smallness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. littleness, smallishness, narrowness, minuteness, diminutiveness, infinitesimalness, small size, minute size, diminutive size, shortness, brevity, atomity, slightness, scantiness, exiguity, tininess, petiteness, dapperness …

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  • 65exiguous — [ɪg zɪgjʊəs, ɛg ] adjective formal very small. Derivatives exiguity gju:ɪti noun exiguously adverb exiguousness noun Origin C17: from L. exiguus scanty (from exige …

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  • 66exiguousness — n. See exiguity …

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  • 67exility — n. Slenderness, fineness, smallness, slimness, diminutiveness, attenuation, exiguousness, exiguity …

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  • 68paucity — n. 1. Fewness, small number, rarity. 2. Smallness of quantity, poverty, exiguity …

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  • 69poverty — n. 1. Indigence, penury, want, destitution, need, necessity, privation, neediness, distress, straitened circumstances. 2. Beggary, mendicancy, pauperism. 3. Need, lack, want, deficiency, scantiness, sparingness, meagreness, jejuneness. 4. Paucity …

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  • 70thinness — n. 1. Slenderness, slimness, meagreness, leanness, gauntness, emaciation, lankness. 2. Meagreness, poorness, slenderness. 3. Tenuity, fineness, slenderness, delicacy, exiguity. 4. Tenuity, rareness. 5. Rarity, rareness, tenuity, subtilty,… …

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