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poverty
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poverty noun absence, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, dearth, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, embarrassed circumstances, exigency, famine, humbleness, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, insolvency, lack, leanness, loss of fortune, meagerness, mendicancy, mendicity, narrow means, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, needy circumstances, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penury, poor circumstances, privation, reduced circumstances, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, slender means, sparseness, starvation, straitened circumstances, straits, subsistence level, tenuitas, unprosperousness, want
Associated concepts: proceed in forma pauperus
See also: dearth, deficiency, indigence, paucity, privation


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Serving the educational needs of underprivileged children is a very important objective, particularly in New York, and I am happy that I'm able to do my part to help," Knakal said.
Students get sent to international locations like Zambia and Thailand and domestic locations like Appalachia to work with underprivileged children.
But for some underprivileged children, it's a time of despair -- same clothes, same shoes from last year.
 
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