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scarcity
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    The economists disagree on how to allocate scarce resources.
    scarce = short in supply
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    The unrest lead to a scarcity of oil and thus to higher prices.
    scarcity = shortage
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    ...had Brian not been rescued when he was, had he been forced to go into hard fall, perhaps winter, it would have been very rough on him. ... Game becomes seemingly plentiful in the fall ... but in winter it gets scarce and sometimes simply nonexistent as...  (source)
    scarce = an amount that is less than desired
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    Game was scarce, forcing Franklin and his men to subsist on lichens scraped from boulders, singed deer hide, scavenged animal bones, their own boot leather, and finally one another's flesh.  (source)
    scarce = less than desired
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    Because of the scarcity of water, each camper was only allowed a four-minute shower.†  (source)
    scarcity = shortage (having an amount that is less than desired)
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    Scarceness o' victual 'ull keep: there's no need to be hasty wi' the cooking.†  (source)
    Scarceness = smallness (in amount)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    He said, 'Always deal in scarcities.†  (source)
    scarcities = shortages (amounts that are less than desired)
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    The guineas, too, were about the scarcest, and it was with these only that my mother knew how to make her count.†  (source)
    scarcest = least available
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    Jobs are scarce.  (source)
    scarce = available less than desired
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    The owls cried in the distance, still hungry from winter's scarcity.†  (source)
    scarcity = shortage (having an amount that is less than desired)
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    8:7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8:8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; 8:9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.†  (source)
    scarceness = smallness (in amount)
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    The scarcities, inflation, taxes, and profiteering, the incessant worries and enmities of war, were all ever-present.†  (source)
    scarcities = shortages (amounts that are less than desired)
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    in the mountains where doctors were scarce  (source)
    scarce = available less than desired
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rare meaning

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The dead man's knell Is there scarce asked for who, and good men's lives Expire before the flowers in their caps, Dying or ere they sicken.  (source)
scarce = hardly
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