Law and Crime

Question 1

nefarious

Answer 1

(adj.) evil, criminal

Eg: Those involved in nefarious activities

Question 2

decree

Answer 2

(n.) 法令

Eg: Romania’s prime minister said that he was scrapping a decree that would shielded dozens of Politicians from prosecution for corruption

Question 3

decoy

Answer 3

(n.) someone or sth used to trick a person into going where you want them to go, trap

Eg: In order to apprehend the drug traffickers, the police used a decoy who pretended to be interested in making a sale

Question 4

defame

Answer 4

(v.) insult, offend

(n.) offence
Eg: The Prime Minister sued the magazine for defamation after it ran a story about him siphoning state funds into his personal bank account.

Question 5

extra judicial

Answer 5

Outside the boundaries of killing

Eg: Due to the presence of Organised crime and extra judicial police killings

Question 6

repugnancy

Answer 6

(n. ) inconsistency or incompatibility of ideas or statements
eg: This is a final aim sought by US to store up the international repugnancy towards NK

Question 7

devious

Answer 7

(adj. ) using dishonest tricks and deceiving ppl, conniving
eg: It is hoped that participants will honour the intent of the initiate and not resort to devious means to collect pixels.

Question 8

embezzle

Answer 8

(v. ) to steal money from the place where you work; misappropriate; commit fraud
eg: They had been embezzled by online fraudsters

Question 9

ensnare

Answer 9

(v. ) to force or trick sb into doing sth that you do not really want to, catch
eg: I was ensnared into sharing my bank details with a person who pretended to be a bank officer.

Question 10

entice

Answer 10

(v. ) lure, attract

eg: She has been accused of fabricating her story to entice ppl to purchase the app and the book.

Question 11

feign

Answer 11

(v. ) pretend, fake

eg: She feigned illness to escape from doing the household chores.

Question 12

felony

Answer 12

(n. ) offence, wrongdoing

eg: He committed a felony and was jailed for 10 years.

Question 13

common intention

Answer 13

(n.) 共謀

Question 14

abetment

Answer 14

(n.) 教唆

Question 15

permissible

Answer 15

(adj. ) allowed by law or rules, permitted, accepted

eg: chemical weapons are not permissible.

Question 16

fleece

Answer 16

(v. ) to charge someone too much money for sth; cheat

eg: Hawkers do not fleece customers

Question 17

skulduggery

Answer 17

(n.) illegal activity; tricky; dishonest

Eg: social media is trusted by only a slim of minority of 4% of web using adults due to many instances of exposed skulduggery

Question 18

axiom

Answer 18

(n.) an established or accepted statement

Question 19

draconian

Answer 19

(adj.) very harsh

Eg: this state of offside has resulted in recent draconian policies

Question 20

aggravate

Answer 20

(v.) make a situation worse

Eg: this has aggravated the situation

Question 21

fraudulent

Answer 21

(adj.) fake, deceitful, untrue

Eg: He was arrested for selling fraudulent goods

Question 22

fugitive

Answer 22

(n.) someone who is hiding especially from the law

Eg: the fugitive escaped to Bangkok after robbing a bank

Question 23

seditious

Answer 23

(adj. ) intended to illegally encourage ppl to disobey the GOV; treasonable
eg: They were jailed for their seditious articles.

Question 24

solicit

Answer 24

(v.) to offer to have sex with someone for money;
Ask someone for money

Eg: Sec work is legal in Singapore, but not soliciting for sex publicly or living off the earnings for sex workers

Question 25

embezzle

Answer 25

(v. ) steal or misappropriate

eg: She had embezzled $1000 in company funds.

Question 26

extenuating

Answer 26

(adj. ) mitigating, palliative

eg: Hunger and poverty are treated by the courts as extenuating circumstances.

Question 27

malicious

Answer 27

(adj.) spiteful

Eg: he was found guilty of malicious behaviors

Question 28

inalienable right

Answer 28

(n. ) rights that cannot be denied

eg: to do otherwise would be no less an assault on the inalienable rights to life

Question 29

extradite

Answer 29

(v.) transfer; hand over; send back

Eg: the criminal was extradited to the county where the crime took place

Question 30

aberrant

Answer 30

(adj.) deviating from what is normal

Eg: This somewhat aberrant behaviours require an explanation

Question 31

perjury

Answer 31

(n.) 偽證

Question 32

calumniate

Answer 32

(v.) to make maliciously false statements

Question 33

vindicate

Answer 33

(v. ) to clear someone’s blame or suspicion

eg: Hospital staffs were vindicated by the inquest verdict.

Question 34

approbate

Answer 34

(v.) approve

Question 35

vituperative

Answer 35

(adj. ) containing verbal abuses

eg: a vituperative outburst

Question 36

gainsay

Answer 36

(v. ) deny

eg: the impact of the railway cannot be gainsaid.

Question 37

transgression

Answer 37

(n. ) offence; crime

eg: I will be keeping an eye out for further transgression

Question 38

exculpate

Answer 38

(v. ) declare that someone is not guilty of wrongdoing

eg: the article exculpated the mayor

Question 39

inchoate

Answer 39

(adj. ) just begun and so not fully formed or developed

eg: a still inchaote democracy