Poverty

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Penury

Synonyms Penury, indigence, privation, impoverishment, need, hardship, impecuniosity, beggary, straitened circumstances, insolvency, pauperdom, destitution, pennilessness, deprivation, neediness, want, impecuniousness, hand-to-mouth existence, pauperism, bankruptcy, and primary poverty.

Scarcity

Synonyms Scarcity, dearth, paucity, inadequacy, lack, deficit, limitedness, sparseness, exiguity, mediocrity, barrenness, sterility, deficiency, shortage, insufficiency, absence, want, meagreness, restrictedness, sparsity, inferiority, poorness, and aridity.

Example Sentences

Poverty affects millions of families worldwide.

They work to alleviate extreme poverty.

Education can help reduce poverty levels.

Poverty often leads to hopelessness and despair.