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NECESSARY
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The answer NECESSARY is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
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NECESSARY as a noun:
1. (necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary) = anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
NECESSARY as an adjective:
1. absolutely essential
2. unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; "the necessary consequences of one's actions"