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scarce
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Adjective
  • deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
    • fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought
Adverb
  • only a very short time before
    • they could barely hear the speaker
    • we hardly knew them
    • just missed being hit
    • had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open
    • would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave- W.B.Yeats
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