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Browse Topic Dictionaries
Build your topic vocabulary with these mini-dictionaries, which are groups of words related to common subject areas.
Choose a topic area from the list below to get started.
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Social Issues
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People In Need
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Poverty And Famine
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Social issues
People in need
Helping others
Poverty and famine
Social groups
Belonging to society
Immigration
Race
Social justice
bag lady
beg
beggar
begging bowl
depression
deprivation
dirt farmer
disadvantaged
distress
dosser
emaciated
famine
favela
hard up
hardship
hunger
impoverish
impoverished
indigent
low-paid
malnourished
malnutrition
pauper
pellagra
penniless
penurious
penury
poor
poverty
poverty trap
poverty-stricken
rag
rickets
shanty
shanty town
slum
slumlord
starve
street people
subsistence
sweated labour
tenement
tramp
underclass
upper
vagrancy
vagrant
workhouse