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"he was scarce sixteen years old" "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"adverbalmost not
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"had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open" "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"adverbonly a very short time before
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"fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"adjectivedeficient in quantity or number compared with the demandOpposite:
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