Advantage and Need

Advantage

Advantage noun - The more favorable condition or position in a competition.

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Need and advantage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Need" instead a noun "Advantage".

Need noun - Something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable.

Usage example: got a job that barely provided for his basic needs

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Advantage and need are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Advantage" instead a noun "Need".

Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful

good	good advantage	good need
physical	physical advantage	physical need
particular	particular advantage	particular need
natural	natural advantage	natural need
Other adjectives: sheer, obvious, strong, powerful, actual, distinct, real, large, big, great, serious, huge, little, inherent, personal, new, psychological, possible, overwhelming, greater, greatest.

The key element, though, is a seemingly-harmless relinquishing of an advantage for good reasons, which is immediately "punished" by a dire need for the lost advantage.

Source: Always Need What You Gave Up
Blessed with Suck: Margaret Fier has the power of Psychometry, which the people of her town are both afraid of and are willing to use to their advantage should the need arise.

Source: Literature / Fear Street
Splash Damage Abuse: An advantage of grenades is that they do not need to land at a target's feet to do their damage, they just need to land in the target's general area.

Source: Tabletop Game / Dark Heresy

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