Both Uses of
meager
in
The Hunger Games
- Each tessera is worth a meager year's supply of grain and oil for one person.
p. 13.4 *meager = small
- I manage to take cover under a stone outcropping just as the vomiting begins, and I lose my meager supper and whatever water has remained in my stomach.
p. 173.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(meager) lacking in quantity or quality
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, meager can describe someone as very thin.