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Law and Order Words
Law and Order Words and a few more - Mr. Letts class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| denounce | to put down by condemning |
| decry | to criticize |
| depreciate | to go down in value |
| despondent | defected |
| despondent | depressed |
| despondent | feeling very down and discouraged |
| deleterious | harmful |
| deleterious | hurtful |
| deleterious | detrimental |
| belittle | to make someone feel really little |
| belittle | to disparage |
| belie | to lie in the sense of contradicting |
| plausible | believable |
| plausible | credible |
| incorrigible | incapable of being reformed |
| defamation | an abusive attack on a person's reputation |
| innuendo | a veiled hint or insinuation, esp. a negative reflection on a person's character or reputation |
| travesty | a miscarriage of justice |
| travesty | a distortion of proper procedure |
| exculpate | to exonerate |
| exculpate | to free from blame |
| exculpate | to declare innocent |
| fabricate | to make up or invent a story |
| unprecedented | without previous example |
| immaterial | of no importance |
| immaterial | irrelevant and therefore lacking significance |
| incontrovertible | not open to question |
| incontrovertible | indisputable |