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poverty
/ˈpɑːvɚti/
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What does poverty mean?
noun
- The quality or state of being poor; lack of money
- A deficiency of something needed or desired
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However, tens of millions of villagers, particularly in the south, have not benefited from the green revolution and live in abject poverty.
Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden wooing, nor her sudden consenting.
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The vision of translation from poverty and obscurity to such a splendid post as this--truly it was too dazzling for tranquil nerves.
And yet—if he could be back in that far-off spot with his youthful poverty—why, then he would choose to be a missionary.
Like the non-slaveholders at the south, in holding no slaves, I suppose the northern people like them, also, in poverty and degradation.