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v. Present participle of need.

""If 'Light My Fire' hadn't made the Doors into stars," Mr. Marcus suggests, "you can hear how their music could have curdled into artiness, everything self-referential, post-modern, each note a parody of something else, not a word needing to mean what it said, the group more popular in Paris or Milan.""

needed    needing    needs   

requisite    requirement    essential    necessary    necessity   

poverty    necessity    at need   

needs   

draw    cry out for    govern    cry for    take    exact    claim    compel    cost   

needed    needing    needsaaklik    need-to-know basis    unneeded   

extremity    indigence    poverty    destitution    emergency    necessity    strait    exigency    penury    want   

Aristide    Bede    Ede    Gilead    Mead    Meade    Read    Reed    Reid    Sinead   

desire    necessity    plan    condition    requirement    mean    reason    bear    trial    had