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Pillar of community - someone who is important and respected within a group. Access to sth - the right or opportunity to have or use sth that will bring you benefits. Acquit - to state officially that someone is not guilty of the crime they were accused of.
Pillar of community - someone who is important and respected within a group. Access to sth - the right or opportunity to have or use sth that will bring you benefits. Acquit - to state officially that someone is not guilty of the crime they were accused of.
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Pillar of community - someone who is important and respected within a group. Access to sth - the right or opportunity to have or use sth that will bring you benefits. Acquit - to state officially that someone is not guilty of the crime they were accused of.
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1. A pillar of community – someone who is important and respected within a group
2. Access to sth – the right or opportunity to have or use sth that will bring you benefits 3. Alert – to warn; to tell someone in authority about a danger or problem so that they can take action to deal with it (inform) 4. Alleged – claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved 5. Anticipate – to think that sth will probably happen; guess that sth will happen and be ready to deal with it 6. Acquit – to state officially that someone is not guilty of the crime they were accused of 7. Articulate – able to express your thoughts and arguments clearly and effectively 8. At the rear – in a part of a place or thing that is at the back 9. Assassination – the murder of a famous or important person especially for political reasons 10. Assault – a physical attack on someone or the crime of physically attacking someone 11. Assignment – work that you must do as part of a course of study or as part of your job 12. Assimilation – the process of becoming part of a community or culture 13. Attempted murder – killing that sb tries to do but does not succeed in doing 14. Baffling – sth you cannot understand 15. Bail – money that is given to a court when someone is allowed to stay out of prison until their trial 16. Beneficial – sth that has a good effect or influence on someone or sth 17. Boom – to flourish 18. Bridge the gap – to reduce the differences that separate two things or groups 19. Capital punishment – death penalty 20. Charge sb with sth – accuse someone officially of committing a crime 21. Civil liberties – the basic rights that all citizens have to do or say what they want, as long as they do not break the law or affect other people’s rights 22. Claim – statement without proof; say sth is true: right to sth 23. Clerical – connected with the ordinary work that people do in offices 24. Congestion – a situation in which a place is crowded with people or vehicles 25. Community service – work that someone does as a punishment instead of going to prison 26. Compatible – ideas or systems that can exist together; likely to have good relations because of being similar 27. Crook – someone who is dishonest, especially someone who uses their position of power for their personal advantage 28. Cross reference – a note in a book that tells you to look at another page for more information 29. Culprit – someone who is responsible for doing sth bad or illegal 30. Delinquent – someone, especially a young person, who behaves in a way that is criminal or antisocial 31. Deportation – sending someone out of a country, usually because they do not have a legal right to be there 32. Deputy head – someone whose job is the second most important in a department or organisation 33. Detain – to keep someone in a police station or prison and not allow them to leave 34. Deter – to make someone decide not to do sth 35. Digit – one of the written numbers from 0 to 9 36. Discharge – a situation in which someone who has been accused of a crime is judged to be not guilty and officially allowed to leave prison or a court of law 37. Dismiss – to refuse to accept that sth might be true or important; a judge officially decides that the case should not continue, to officially tell people that they can leave a place 38. Displace – to force someone to leave their own country and live someone else 39. Diversity – the fact that very different people or things exist within a group or place 40. Domestic violence – violence that takes place in the home between family members, especially adults 41. Donation – money or goods that you give to an organization, especially one that helps people 42. Do sth against one’s better judgment – do sth even though you are not sure that it is a good idea 43. Eliminate – to get rid of sth that is not wanted or needed, to remove someone from a competition 44. Embezzlement – stealing money from a company where you work 45. Eminently – very or very much 46. Encapsulate – to express something in a short clear form that gives the most important facts or ideas 47. Faulty – not working correctly or made correctly 48. Felony – serious crime such as murder or robbery 49. File – to take official action, for example to make an official complaint 50. Fiscal year – financial year 51. Foot the bill – pay for sth that is expensive or that someone else should be paying 52. Foster parents – the people who look after a child in their home for a period of time 53. Fraud - gaining money through dishonest means 54. Fringe – the outer edge of sth (on the fringes of society); people or activities that are considered strange or extreme 55. Genocide – the murder of large numbers of people belonging to a particular race 56. Heritage – the art, buildings, traditions and beliefs that a society considers important to its history and culture 57. Hold in custody – keep someone in prison until they go to court for trial 58. Homicide – the crime of killing someone 59. Imminent – likely or certain to happen very soon 60. Impartial – not connected to or influenced by one particular person or group, (erapooletu) 61. Implement – to make sth such as an idea, plan or law start to work and be used (carry out) 62. Inadequacy – the failure to be of the quantity or quality needed for a particular purpose 63. Incentive – sth that makes you want to do sth or to work harder, because you know that you will benefit by doing this 64. Inmate – someone who is kept in a prison, mental hospital or other institution 65. Intelligence – information collected about the secret plans and activities of a foreign government, enemy, etc.; a government organization that collects such information 66. Invariably – always or almost always 67. Invasion of privacy – an occasion when someone finds out or uses information about your private life, 68. especially illegally 69. Invasive – intrusive; annoying because of being too close, too noisy, or too involved in people’s personal 70. life 71. Issue – a subject that people discuss or argue about, especially relating to society, politics, etc 72. Jaywalking – crossing the street in a wrong place 73. Juror – one of a jury, vandekohtu liige 74. Juvenile delinquency – crimes committed by young people 75. Keep tabs on sb – to watch someone carefully to see what they do or watch sth carefully 76. Kidnapping – holding sb against their will in order to gain sth 77. Legislation – a law or a set of laws 78. Lenient punishment – less severe punishment than it could be 79. Liability – legal responsibility for causing damage or injury, or for paying sth; someone or sth that causes 80. Libel – publishing lies about someone 81. Littering – leaving rubbish in a public place 82. Loitering with intent – remaining in a public place without an obvious reason 83. Mandatory – ordered by a law or a rule 84. Manslaughter – unintentionally causing someone’s death 85. Mitigation – a reduction in the harmful effects of sth; things that are said in the court of law to explain why someone committed a crime so that it seems less bad 86. Monitor – to regularly check sth or watch someone in order to find out what is happening 87. Mortality – the number of deaths within a particular area; the fact that your life will end 88. Mugging – robbing someone in the street 89. Net income – the total amount of money after taxes or costs have been removed 90. Nick – to steal sth, to pinch 91. Option – sth that you can choose in a particular situation 92. Out-of-court settlement – an agreement between the people involved in a legal argument that an amount of money will be paid without the case being decided officially in a law court 93. Overwhelmingly – used for emphasizing the amount of strength of sth; largely 94. Perpetrate – to do sth that is harmful, illegal or dishonest 95. Persistent – continuing to do sth in a determined way; continuing to exist 96. Persuasion – a set of political or religious beliefs 97. Plead guilty or innocent – to say in a court of law whether you are guilty of a crime or not 98. Plight – sad, serious or difficult situation 99. Precision – accuracy; the quality of being accurate and exact 100. Presumption of innocence – the belief that a person is innocent until proved guilty 101. Probation – a system by which someone who has committed a crime is not sent to prison but has to agree not to break the law again and let a probation officer check their behaviour for a specific period of time 102. Promote – to support or encourage sth; to attract people’s attention to a product or event by advertising 103. Prosecutor – a lawyer whose job is to prove in court that someone accused of a crime is guilty 104. Proven track record – shown to be true, real or effective 105. Prompt action – immediate or quick action 106. Proverbial – well-known or typical 107. Raise money – collect money for a particular purpose 108. Reckless - not thinking about the possible bad effects of your actions 109. Reckless driving – in the US, the crime of driving a vehicle in the way that is likely to hurt or kill people 110. Relevant – important and directly connected to what is being discussed or considered 111. Remand – to tell someone who has committed a crime to return to court for trial on a particular day 112. Retain – to keep someone or sth; to remember ideas or information 113. Revocation – officially saying that sth is no longer legal, for example a law or a document 114. Riot – violent protest by a crowd of people 115. Road hog – someone who drives in a dangerous way, often making it difficult for other cars to pass 116. Rule – to make and announce a decision, usually about a legal matter 117. Scuffle – to have a short fight that is not very violent 118. Sentence – a punishment given by a judge, usually involving a period of time in prison 119. Slander – publicly lying about sb 120. Solicitor – in the UK, a lawyer who gives legal advice, writes legal contracts and represents people in the lower courts of law 121. Spokesperson – someone whose job is to officially represent am organisation, e.g. in dealing with journalists 122. Staggering – extremely surprising 123. Stay put – to remain in one place or position 124. Stigmatize – to treat a particular type of behaviour as wrong or embarrassing and to try to make people who behave in this way feel ashamed 125. Submit – to formally give sth to someone so that they can make a decision about it 126. Substantial – large in amount and degree; considerable 127. Sufficient – enough; as much as is needed 128. Surveillance – the process of carefully watching a person or place that may be involved in a criminal activity 129. Suspended sentence – time that someone will have to spend in prison only if they commit another crime within a fixed period 130. Sustain – to support or prove an idea, theory, statement, etc; give someone strength, energy or hope 131. The car stalls – the car suddenly stops working because not enough power is reaching the engine 132. Tight budget – a small amount of money 133. The dock – the part of a court of law where the person who is accused of a crime stands or sits 134. To pose objections – to express your disagreement with sth 135. To subject sb to sth – to make someone experience sth unpleasant 136. Trafficking - the business of buying and selling things such as weapons and drugs illegally 137. Trespassing – illegally entering somebody’s property 138. Trouble spot – a place where there is often trouble, especially a country or region where fighting between opposing groups often happens 139. Truncheon – a short thick stick carried by a police officer as a weapon 140. Unprecedented – never having happened or existed before; the greatest in size, degree, etc. that has ever been known 141. Urgent – very important and needing to be dealt with immediately 142. Usher – to lead someone politely somewhere, e.g. into a room or towards a seat 143. Valid – reasonable and generally accepted 144. Vandalism – destruction of public property 145. Verdict – an official statement made in court (whether someone is guilty or not) 146. Violation – an action that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle, etc 147. Voice – to express your opinions or feelings about sth, especially negative feelings 148. Wholeheartedly – enthusiastically and completely