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squalor
These people are forced to live in squalor. It was a dirty, damp, smelly flat - the usual student squalor.
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the condition of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, often because of lack of money:
slum
an inner-city slum She was brought up in the slums of Lima This house would be an absolute slum if I wasn't here to clean it.
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a very poor and crowded area, especially of a city, a very untidy or dirty place
Sweatshop
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a small factory where workers are paid very little and work many hours in very bad conditions
Brain drain
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the situation in which large numbers of educated and very skilled people leave their own country to live and work in another one where pay and conditions are better:
Clash of cultures
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tensions between people from different societies, nations...
kind off
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in some way or to some degree
surface
(A rumour has surfaced that the company is about to go out of business. The submarine surfaced a few miles off the coast
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to appear
to figure
Their names did not figure in the list of finalists Cooler movies don’t seem to figure as much
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to appear on list
to comment
People don’t really comment on it
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to pay attention or to note something
bland
It’s a bit too bland for me.
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tasteless
shantytown
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an area in or on the edge of a city, in which poor people live in small, very cheaply built houses
hare-brained
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not practical or silly
This sounds like another of his harebrained schemes.
to leave left left
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to go away from smth
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