单词	penury
释义	penurypen‧u‧ry /ˈpenjəri/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINpenury Origin: 1400-1500 Latin penuria Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS As long as they had their beloved stock market, they seemed not to mind their relative penury. But penury, though exasperating enough, was not the whole of his distress. From the comparative opulence of 17-6 they then slipped into penury by conceding 18 unanswered points. If any doctor had depended on us for his living, then he would have died in penury. It transforms a state of wealth into a state of penury. The show went into penury, I think. While the rich could flaunt their wealth the numerous urban poor lived in a state of penury. formal the state of being very poor SYN  poverty:  He died in penury in 1644.—penurious /pəˈnjʊəriəs $ -ˈnʊr-/ adjective
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