Famine and Lack

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Famine noun - A falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number.

Usage example: there's a famine of good general practitioners in many rural areas

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Lack is a synonym for famine in shortage topic. In some cases you can use "Lack" instead a noun "Famine", when it comes to topics like scarcity.

Nearby Word: famished

Lack noun - The fact or state of being absent.

Usage example: the lack of news about the fate of the soldiers was frustrating

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Famine is a synonym for lack in absence topic. You can use "Famine" instead a noun "Lack", if it concerns topics such as shortage, scarcity.

Nearby Words: lacking, lacked

natural	natural famine	natural lack
simple	simple famine	simple lack
real	real famine	real lack
constant	constant famine	constant lack
Other adjectives: massive, extreme, terrible, new, sudden, resulting, aforementioned.

In "Hearts and Hooves Day", Apple Bloom imagines that the love-poisoned Cheerilee and Big Mac's neglect of their duties of teaching and apple harvesting will lead to Ponyville being destroyed by famine and lack of education.

Source: Imagine Spot
When you add to this onset of a new ice age caused by nuclear winter conditions, plagues caused by lack of modern medical technology and a shortage of medicine, famine, and the constant danger of bandits, it's a wonder anyone survives to the end of the book at all.

Source: Literature / Lucifer's Hammer
The Kingdom of Nohr is suffering of both a lack of good crops (threatening to bring up quite the famine) and inner turmoil.

Source: Genghis Gambit

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