Disadvantages Flashcards
opinionated
(adj.) intolerant, prejudiced
Eg: the opinionated comments on social media sites against refugees
debilitate
(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
decipher
(v.) work out, make sense of
Eg: We need to decipher the reason for low female representatives
decrepit
(adj.) old and in bad condition, feeble, weak
Eg: The decrepit old man sat on the pavement begging for money from passers-by
destitute
(adj. ) poor, penniless, impoverished
eg: Many people are destitute
devoid of
(adj. ) deficient
eg: In the 1980s, those who contracted AIDs were devoid of any hope.
eke
(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.
scrounge
(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
obstracised
shunned/alienated/discriminated against/ marginalised/ isolated
spartan
(adj.) simple and without any comforts, frugal, basic
Eg: many poverty stricken ppl living in spartan conditions
gaunt
(adj.) very thin and pale; skinny
Eg: In Singapore, it is impossible to find ppl who are gaunt due to lack of food
execrable
(adj.) extremely bad, terrible, appalling
Eg: the execrable conditions of the refugee camps worried the UN officials
indigence
(n. ) poverty; destitution
eg: he did valuable work towards the relief of indigence