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  • 51Poverty — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Poverty >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 poverty poverty indigence penury pauperism destitution want Sgm: N 1 need need neediness Sgm: N 1 lack lack necessity privation …

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  • 52mendicant — [ mɛndɪk(ə)nt] adjective given to begging. ↘of or denoting a religious order originally dependent on alms. noun a beggar. ↘a member of a mendicant order. Derivatives mendicancy noun mendicity noun Origin ME: from L. mendicant , mendicare beg ,… …

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  • 53beggary — n. Poverty, indigence, penury, destitution, want, distress, mendicancy, mendicity …

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  • 54mendicancy — n. Beggary, mendicity …

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  • 55bankruptcy — 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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  • 56beggary — 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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  • 57destitution — 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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  • 58indigence — 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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  • 59insolvency — n bankruptcy, inability to pay, indebtedness, liquidation, failure, default, nonpayment; pauperism, pauperage, beggary, pennilessness, mendicancy, mendicity; destitution, impecuniousness, poverty, impoverishment, penury, indigence, straits …

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  • 60mendicancy — n beggary, mendicity, pauperism, pau perage; alms begging, Inf. panhandling, scrounging, Inf. bumming; poverty, indigence, penury, destitution, pennilessness, impecuniosity, neediness; Inf. hardupness, Queer Street, skid row; insolvency,… …

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