Life and Need

Life

Life noun - A motive for living.

Usage example: pottery was his life

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

Nearby Words: lifeless, lifetime, lifer, lifeline

Need noun - A state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful.

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Life and need are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Life" with "Need", this nouns are similar.

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

human	human life	human need
old	old life	old need
good	good life	good need
high	high life	high need
Other adjectives: low, long, natural, current, original, single, real, social, personal, new, last, different, biological.

Augmented Reality: Maya is talking to you as you play, and using the 3DS' cameras as the Camera Obscura, the ghosts are invading your personal life and need to be fought.

Source: Videogame / Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir
Or, if you need a ScaryClown: real life serial killer John Wayne Gacy comes to mind, as does the fictional killer clown Pennywise from It.

Source: Small Reference Pools / Real Life
The reluctant, eponymous succubus in Richelle Mead's Georgina Kincaid series relies on this power to seduce (mainly) men in order to get the life energy her kind need.

Source: Shapeshifting Seducer

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