Penury means extreme poverty to the point of homelessness and begging in the streets. Economic downturns, job loss, shopping sprees, and weekends at the high rollers' table in Vegas can lead to penury.
Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
Noun
a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
n.
Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme
poverty; destitution.
n.
Penuriousness; miserliness.
Penury
They were exposed to hardship and penury.
It arises in neither from penury of thought.2.
Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
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