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deficiency
deficiency · insufficiency · shortage · lack · want · dearth · scarcity
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • Waste not, want not.

  • Waste makes want.

  • Knowledge is scarce; wisdom is scarcer.

  • The war ushered in a period of shortages and deprivation.

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