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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slum |
| Synonyms: | public squalor, rundown section of a city |
| Notes: | a slum and a ghetto are different - if everyone is ethnically similar, it is a ghetto and if everyone is basically poor, it is a slum |
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