Single-Word Requests – Best Verb to Remedy a Lack of Something

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What verb would you use to describe solving the problem of there being a lack of something?
For example, if there is a lack of money, and someone makes a donation, they would have … the lack of money?

According to Google Ngram viewer, remedy would be best choice out of fill,remedy,resolve and compensate, but I wonder if there's a better alternative.

Best Answer

I propose a different verb from 'fill' in the commented example. Lexico has

address
VERB

3 Think about and begin to deal with (an issue or problem)

a fundamental problem has still to be addressed

Which rephrases the sentence as

The proposed methodology may be extensible to similar tools and tries to address the lack of scientific studies in the validation and acceptance of computer-based educational tools.

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