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poor
Adjective
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Someone who is poor has little or no money.
He is very poor.
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Something that is poor is bad quality.
The painting was a poor job.
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You use poor before someone's name or a pronoun when you feel bad for that person.
Tom is all alone. Poor Tom!
Oh, poor you! I can't believe that happened.
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The poor are a group of people who have little or no money.
This work is to help the poor.
law
Noun
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Laws are the official rules of a government or organisation.
We have defined crime as behaviour which breaks the criminal law.
We believe that this law is wrong and we are not prepared to obey such a law.
The Kyoto treaty became law in 2005.
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The law is the police.
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A law is something that is always true.
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Law is the study of laws.