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How to pronounce “lack”
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Pronunciation guide for lack
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of lack with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do
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- Definition summary
- A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce lack
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do

typically lack signals for human
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “lack”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth.
- (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
- [Verb]
- (transitive, stative) To be without, not to have, to need, to require.
- (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.
- (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
- (African-American Vernacular) To be off one's guard.
Practice Nearby Words
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Similar Sounds
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