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opinionated

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(adj.) intolerant, prejudiced

Eg: the opinionated comments on social media sites against refugees

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debilitate

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(adj.) weaken, incapacitate

Eg: It is felt that too much responsibility is given to women in the area of family caregiving, especially elderly with debilities

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decipher

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(v.) work out, make sense of

Eg: We need to decipher the reason for low female representatives

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decrepit

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(adj.) old and in bad condition, feeble, weak

Eg: The decrepit old man sat on the pavement begging for money from passers-by

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destitute

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(adj. ) poor, penniless, impoverished

eg: Many people are destitute

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devoid of

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(adj. ) deficient

eg: In the 1980s, those who contracted AIDs were devoid of any hope.

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eke

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(v. ) manage to make a living with difficult
eg: Pictures of old people who eke out a living by collecting cardboard boxes raised the issues about the aged poor in SG.

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scrounge

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(v.) borrow, beg

Eg: a 17 yr old who ran one of the sites told BuzzFeed that rather than scrounging, faking news was an easy way to make money

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obstracised

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shunned/alienated/discriminated against/ marginalised/ isolated

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spartan

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(adj.) simple and without any comforts, frugal, basic

Eg: many poverty stricken ppl living in spartan conditions

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gaunt

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(adj.) very thin and pale; skinny

Eg: In Singapore, it is impossible to find ppl who are gaunt due to lack of food

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execrable

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(adj.) extremely bad, terrible, appalling

Eg: the execrable conditions of the refugee camps worried the UN officials

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indigence

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(n. ) poverty; destitution

eg: he did valuable work towards the relief of indigence

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