| Flashcards: Latin Derivatives |
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paucity
fewness (small number); scarcity (small amount)
Always able to laugh at himself, old Jim used to say that his corpulence made up for a paucity of brain cells.
Latin root words: paucitas, paucitatis, f. - a small number, scarcity; pauci, paucae, pauca - few
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