poverty: covers a range from extreme want of necessities to a falling short of having comfortable means: the extreme ~ of many Americans.


indigence: seriously straitened circumstances and accompanying hardships: the ~ of her years as a graduate student.


penuary: sug. a cramping and oppressive lack of resources, esp. of money: given the ~ of lifestyle, few suspected their wealth.


want: an extreme poverty that deprives one of necessities of life: lived in a constant state of ~.


destitution: sug. such utter lack of resources AS threatens life through exposure or starvation: the widespread ~ of countries beset by famine:


poverty: 泛指任何贫穷, indigence:条件窘迫，生活艰苦, penuary: 压抑难忍的贫穷，want: 极端贫穷缺少必须品，destitution: 完全缺衣少食威胁生命。


记忆方法：1）首字母PIPWD==> WIDPP 我爱打乒乓==>锻炼身体，摆脱贫困。

          2）贫穷的意思是缺乏钱财资源mean the state of one who is poor or with insufficient resources.