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Law words
vocab
Question | Answer |
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adversary | (n)enemy or rival |
apparent | (adj) obvious or plain to see |
hailiff | (n) court officer that guards prisoners |
blackmail | (n)extortion by threat of exposure or secret information |
clemency | (n) mercy |
condemn | (v) declare to wrong, guilty or unfit to use |
conviction | (n) act of convicting or found guitly |
decieve | (v) trick or mislead |
defense | (n) act of defending from being convicted of a crime |
entrap | (v) to trap or to catch or to trick |
faulty | (adj) wrong, weak, imperfect |
imprison | (v) put in prison |
manacle | (n) shackle for the hands or wrists |
motive | (n) cause of a person's action |
objective | (adj.) giving just the facts or not favoring either side |
parole | (n) conditional release of a prisoner, still being watched |
reasonable | (adj.) fair or dicated by common sense |
relevant | (adj.) closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand |
valid | supported by facts or evidence |