Penury – Poverty

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Pronounced as Pen (emphasized) + Yuh + Ree {Listen to it here}

It comes from Latin root Penuria meaning want.

Situational Uses / Sentences:

• The alienated parents were forced to live in near penury.
• Piracy reduces Hollywood to penury

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