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The article is entitled Destitute and Desperate in the Land of Plenty.destitute = extremely poor
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They are young recruits destitute of experience.destitute of = lacking
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She died destitute in Paris at the age of 38.destitute = extremely poor
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Returning to Kabul was like running into an old, forgotten friend and seeing that life hadn't been good to him, that he'd become homeless and destitute. (source)
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...it was created for the sole purpose of isolating black Africans in small, destitute enclaves where laws were instituted to control the residents and police entered to harass, not to protect. (source)
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Grandparents who get money to care for children left behind would be destitute without the payments. (source)destitute = extremely poor; or lacking the necessities of life such as food and shelter
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I'm ashamed that in a region of unprecedented wealth, the destitute and the sick have been shoved into this human corral. (source)destitute = people who are extremely poor; or lacking the necessities of life such as food and shelter
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Near the turn of the century, the destitute of Europe sprang on the city with tenacious claws and an honest and solid dream. (source)destitute of = extremely poor
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Now he had tuberculosis and was living in destitution in the ghetto in Otwock. (source)destitution = extreme povertystandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that great and despairing body, the rabble, protests against, and that the populace wages battle VOLUME V. JEAN VALJEAN against, the people.† (source)
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...a school in one of the most destitute barrios in all of Monterrey. (source)destitute = extremely poor
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General Heath would later write of seeing Lee's troops pass through Peekskill, many "so destitute of shoes that the blood left on the frozen ground, in many places, marked the route they had taken."† (source)destitute of = lacking
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A public pregnancy without marriage meant disgrace and destitution.† (source)destitution = extreme poverty
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Accordingly, remembering how the gods never fail to reward those who befriend the destitute, (source)destitute = extremely poor
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I was more destitute of human qualities than the cave-dweller;† (source)destitute of = lacking
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We know of oppression and torture, We know of extortion and violence, Destitution, disease, The old without fire in winter, The child without milk in summer, Our labour taken away from us, Our sins made heavier upon us.† (source)Destitution = extreme poverty
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