Question

from Franklin D. Roosevelt Annual Message to Congress

1 We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

2 The first is freedom of speech and expression-everywhere in the world.

3 The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-everywhere in the world.

4 The third is freedom from want-which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants-everywhere in the world.

5 The fourth is freedom from fear-which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor-anywhere in the world.

This sentence is from the passage.

"The third is freedom from want-which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants-everywhere in the world." (Paragraph 4)

Which meaning of the word want is used in the sentence?

1. intrinsic faults

2. unceasing longing

3. insufficient resources

4. unrealistic expectations

Answer 1

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3. insufficient resources