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  • 31poverty — 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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  • 32down and out — ▶ adjective DESTITUTE, poverty stricken, impoverished, penniless, insolvent, impecunious; needy, in straitened circumstances, distressed, badly off; homeless, on the streets, vagrant, sleeping rough; informal hard up, ( …

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  • 33of — I. preposition Etymology: Middle English, off, of, from Old English, adverb & preposition; akin to Old High German aba off, away, Latin ab from, away, Greek apo Date: before 12th century 1. used as a function word to indicate a point of reckoning …

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  • 34Israel — /iz ree euhl, ray /, n. 1. a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 5,534,672; 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Cap.: Jerusalem. 2. the people traditionally descended from Jacob; the Hebrew or Jewish people. 3 …

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  • 35Pentateuch — • The name of the first five books of the Old Testament. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Pentateuch     Pentatuch     † …

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  • 36indigent — 1. adjective /ˈɪndɪʤənt/ Poor; destitute; in need. I had since my introduction to the prince been sensitive to the fact that he must think an obviously indigent soldier of fortune will sooner or later open the subject of a subscription to the… …

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  • 37unfortunate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unlucky, hapless, ill fated, ill starred, star crossed, luckless, unsuccessful, abortive, disastrous, ruinous; short or out of luck, SOL, behind the eight ball, jinxed, hexed (all sl.). See… …

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  • 38poor — W1S1 [po: US pur] adj comparative poorer superlative poorest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(no money)¦ 2¦(not good)¦ 3¦(sympathy)¦ 4¦(not good at something)¦ 5¦(health)¦ 6 poor in something 7 a poor second/third etc …

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  • 39indigent — 1. adjective indigent families Syn: poor, impecunious, destitute, penniless, impoverished, insolvent, poverty stricken; needy, in need, hard up, disadvantaged, badly off; informal (flat) broke, strapped (for cash), on skid row, down and out;… …

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  • 40opposite# — opposite n contradictory, contrary, antithesis, antipode, antonym (see under OPPOSITE adj) opposite adj Opposite, contradictory, contrary, antithetical, antipodal, antipodean, antonymous are comparable chiefly as applied to abstractions and as… …

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