I'm just a poor boy 2

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someone who studies or is an expert in sociology
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sociologist
Sociologists have studied and described it.
to end something by force:
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suppress
I could barely suppress my anger.
Stress also suppresses the generation of new nerve cells in the brain,
expressing disapproval, or suggesting that something is not good or is of no importance:
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pejorative
Make sure students realize that "fat" is a pejorative word.
Put pejoratively, they are stupider.
People who are ... are poor and unsuccessful and have the lowest position in society.
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at the bottom of the heap
the poor are at the bottom of the social heap as well as the financial one
an informal social system in which some people or groups know they are more or less important than others:
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pecking order
he started as a clerk but gradually he rose in the pecking order.
it may not be necessary to look any further than their place in the pecking order to explain what Dr Evans and Dr Schamberg have discovered in their research into the children of the poor.
someone who has done something wrong:
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culprit
Police hope the public will help them to find the culprits was identified by Martha Farah in her study conducted three years ago.
The culprit that causes the diminution of memory among children of the poor...
making or having the nature of a declaration
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declarative
Entry into the working memory is also a prerequisite for something to be learnt permanently as part of declarative memory—
rozkurczowy (o sercu)
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diastolic
diastolic and systolic blood pressure;
skurczowy
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systolic
diastolic and systolic blood pressure;
kurczyc sie
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shrink
Most significantly of all, it shrinks the volume of the prefrontal cortex
to do something to punish someone or show them that you are angry;
Pol. spuszczać, zesłać (coś) na kogoś
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visit sth on sb
It is not surprising that they do less well at school, end up poor as adults and often visit the same circumstances on their own children.
someone who takes a job or position previously held by someone else
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successor
Sir Michael Marmot and his intellectual successors have shown repeatedly that people at the bottom of social hierarchies experience much more stress in their daily lives than those at the top.

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