Derelict and Survivor

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Derelict noun - An idle worthless person.

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Survivor and derelict are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Survivor" instead a noun "Derelict".

Nearby Word: dereliction

Survivor noun - One who lives through affliction.

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Derelict and survivor are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Derelict" instead a noun "Survivor".

Nearby Words: survive, survival, survived, surviving, survivorship

In the Alien-esque hentai Alien from the Darkness, the lone survivor of a derelict ship pretends to have amnesia, and is thus unable to tell her rescuers what happened to the rest of her crew-mates.

Source: Faking Amnesia
Almost every FPS from the 90s (Doom, Quake, Unreal, System Shock 2, Duke Nukem 3D etc.) put you in the skin of the sole survivor of a crashed spaceship, a Space Marine strike force decimated by aliens, a derelict space station, an invasion of creatures from another dimension, etc.

Source: Downer Beginning

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