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sparse

adjective as in very few and scattered

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“Warfare” is so sparse and neutral that the audience notices what’s missing.

He scours newspapers for faces, tears them out with his hands and mounts them to sparse, solid-colored backgrounds.

Inside the theater, the stage was sparse, with only a floor-to-ceiling screen with the show’s logo.

The attendance at USC’s recent spring games was much more sparse.

The dialect is characterised by an "economy of words" and sparse pronouns, she continues.

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Q: Fill in the blank: "Salchipapas" is a portmanteau of the Spanish words for ______ and ______.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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