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  • 91hardship — noun by age six, she was a refugee and no stranger to hardship Syn: privation, deprivation, destitution, poverty, austerity, penury, want, need, neediness, impecuniousness; misfortune, distress, suffering, affliction, trouble, pain, misery,… …

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  • 92necessity — noun 1) the microwave is now regarded as a necessity Syn: essential, indispensable item, requisite, prerequisite, necessary, basic, sine qua non, desideratum; informal must have 2) political necessity forced him to resign Syn: force of… …

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  • 93need — 1. verb 1) do you need money? Syn: require, be in need of, have need of, want; be crying out for, be desperate for; demand, call for, necessitate, entail, involve; lack, be without, be short of 2) you needn t come …

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  • 94poverty — noun 1) abject poverty Syn: penury, destitution, pauperism, pauperdom, beggary, indigence, pennilessness, impoverishment, neediness, need, hardship, impecuniousness Ant: wealth 2) …

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  • 95privation — noun years of rationing and privation Syn: deprivation, hardship, destitution, impoverishment, want, need, neediness, austerity See note at lack Ant: plenty, luxury …

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  • 96want — 1. verb 1) do you want more coffee? Syn: desire, wish for, hope for, aspire to, fancy, care for, like; long for, yearn for, crave, hanker after, hunger for, thirst for, cry out for, covet; need; informal have a yen for …

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  • 97bankruptcy — n 1. insolvency, liquidation, indebtedness, straitened circumstances; indigence, poverty, penury, destitution, impecuniousness, beggary, pen nilessness, neediness; pauperism, pauperage, pauper dom, mendicancy, mendicity. 2. ruin, failure,… …

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  • 98beggary — n 1. poverty, destitution, penury, indigence, impecuniousness, impecuniosity, pennilessness, neediness; insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation; distress, straits, indebtedness; pauperism, pauperage, pauperdom, mendicancy, mendicity; lack, need, want …

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  • 99destitution — n 1. poverty, penury, indigence, im pecuniousness, impecuniosity, beggary, pennilessness, neediness; insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation; distress, straits, indebtedness; pauperism, pauperage, pauperdom, mendicancy, mendicity. 2. lack, want,… …

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  • 100indigence — n poverty, penury, destitution, impecun iousness, impecuniosity, beggary, pennilessness, neediness; insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation; distress, straits, difficulties, indebtedness; pauperism, pauper age, pauperdom, mendicancy, mendicity; hand… …

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