LACK
lack
Noun
- A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
- A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
Verb
- To be without, to need, to require.
- My life lacks excitement.
- To be short (of or for something).
- He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
- To be in want.
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