New Vocabulary

Question 1

What’s a felony?

Answer 1

A serious crime like rape or murder

Question 2

What is a misdemeanor?

Answer 2

A less serious crime, less serious than a felony.

Question 3

What does recognizance mean?

Answer 3

A legal promise made by someone before a court of law that must be kept to avoid being punished.

Question 4

What does raze mean?

Answer 4

To destroy, or tear down.

Question 5

What does pervade mean?

Answer 5

To spread through all parts of.

Question 6

What does insinuate mean?

Answer 6

To introduce (an idea) gradually or in a subtle way.

Question 7

What does laconic mean?

Answer 7

Using few words in speech or writing. Concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious.

Question 8

What does irresolute mean?

Answer 8

Uncertain how to act or proceed.

Question 9

What does itinerant mean?

Answer 9

Traveling from place to place.

Question 10

What does parietal mean?

Answer 10

Wall of cavity or hollow organ.

Question 11

What does berated mean?

Answer 11

To scold or condemn at length.

Question 12

What does placated mean?

Answer 12

To soothe or mollify by concessions (appease).

Question 13

What does conundrum mean?

Answer 13

Riddle whose answer involves a pun. Intricate or difficult problem.

Question 14

What does clandestine mean?

Answer 14

Conduct or mark or hold something in secret.

Question 15

What does flagrant mean?

Answer 15

Fiery hot or conspicuously (obviously) offensive.

Question 16

What does covert mean?

Answer 16

Not openly shown. Covered Area.

Question 17

What does fetter mean?

Answer 17

Something that confines. Chains or shackles for the feet.

Question 18

What does contraindicate mean?

Answer 18

To make a treatment or procedure inadvisable (not wise).

Question 19

What does comprise mean?

Answer 19

To include within a particular scope.

Question 20

What does magnate mean?

Answer 20

A person of rank, power, influence, or distinction in a specified area.

Question 21

What does palliate mean?

Answer 21

To reduce the pain without curing the underlying disease/illness.

Question 22

What does boon mean?

Answer 22

Benefit or advantage

Question 23

What does vex mean?

Answer 23

To bring trouble, distress, agitation.

Question 24

What does vilify mean?

Answer 24

To say or write harsh and critical things about someone or something.

Question 25

What does vindicate mean?

Answer 25

To set free.

Question 26

What does venerate mean?

Answer 26

To honor with a ritual act of devotion.

Question 27

What does coercion mean?

Answer 27

To restrain or dominate by force.

Question 28

What does volition mean?

Answer 28

Act of making a choice or decision.

Question 29

What does predilection mean?

Answer 29

Establish preference for something.

Question 30

What does itinerant mean?

Answer 30

Traveling from place to place.

Question 31

What does abet mean?

Answer 31

To assist or support (especially in crime).

Question 32

What does abscond mean?

Answer 32

To depart secretly, avoid or hide oneself.

Question 33

What does ductile mean?

Answer 33

Easily led or influenced.

Question 34

What does perforate mean?

Answer 34

To make a hole through.

Question 35

What does pedantic mean?

Answer 35

One who makes a show or knowledge.

Question 36

What does malevolence mean?

Answer 36

To have or show vicious ill will, spite, or hatred.

Question 37

What does declamation mean?

Answer 37

To say something in usually a loud and formal way.

Question 38

What does insurgence mean?

Answer 38

The act of revolting against a civil authority or established government.

Question 39

What does usury mean?

Answer 39

The lending of money with an interest charge for its use.

Question 40

What does malignant mean?

Answer 40

Evil in nature, influence, or effect.

Question 41

What does aloof mean?

Answer 41

To be removed or distant either physically or emotionally.

Question 42

What does jesting mean?

Answer 42

Joking or mocking remark.

Question 43

What does alleged mean?

Answer 43

Accused but not yet proven or convicted.

Question 44

What is an affidavit?

Answer 44

A sworn statement.

Question 45

What is probable cause?

Answer 45

The legal standard to justify an arrest.

Question 46

What is a conviction?

Answer 46

Finding a person guilty of a crime.

Question 47

What does indigent mean?

Answer 47

Lacking money, very poor.

Question 48

What is pro se?

Answer 48

Defendant decides to represent themselves in the court of law without the help of an attorney.

Question 49

What does propensity mean?

Answer 49

Indignation or natural interest.

Question 50

What does augmentation mean?

Answer 50

To make larger, more numerous, more intense.

Question 51

What does anathema mean?

Answer 51

Someone or something that is very strongly disliked.

Question 52

What does abhorrence mean?

Answer 52

Something that is extremely disliked or distasteful.

Question 53

What does armistice mean?

Answer 53

Ceasefire

Question 54

What does preponderance mean?

Answer 54

A superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength.

Question 55

What does prevalence mean?

Answer 55

Generality.

Question 56

What does substantiate mean?

Answer 56

To show evidence

Question 57

What does burgeoning mean?

Answer 57

Growing very quickly.

Question 58

What does verdant mean?

Answer 58

Green in color

Question 59

What does zephyr mean?

Answer 59

Breeze

Question 60

What does Nefarious mean?

Answer 60

Flagrantly wicked.

Question 61

What does villainous mean?

Answer 61

Befitting a villain - like a villainous act.

Question 62

What does egregious mean?

Answer 62

Very bad or easily noticed.

Question 63

What does bellicose mean?

Answer 63

Warlike - prone to start wars.

Question 64

What does defunct mean?

Answer 64

No longer living, existing or functioning.

Question 65

What does outmoded mean?

Answer 65

Out of style, no longer acceptable.

Question 66

What does paucity mean?

Answer 66

Smallness in number, quantity.

Question 67

What does incongruous mean?

Answer 67

Unsuitable, not in harmony.

Question 68

What does hackney mean?

Answer 68

Lacking in freshness or originality.

Question 69

What does loquacious mean?

Answer 69

Wordy - excessive talk. Verbose.

Question 70

What does verbose mean?

Answer 70

Wordy.

Question 71

What does allay mean?

Answer 71

To reduce in intensity.

Question 72

What does pious mean?

Answer 72

Showing loyal reference to a person or thing.

Question 73

What does flout mean?

Answer 73

To break or ignore a law without showing fear or shame.

Question 74

What does arduous mean?

Answer 74

Hard to accomplish or achieve.

Question 75

What does terse mean?

Answer 75

Short, elegant summary.

Question 76

What does rebut mean?

Answer 76

To disprove by evidence or argument.

Question 77

What does exonerate mean?

Answer 77

To relieve of a responsibility or obligation.

Question 78

What is inculpatory evidence?

Answer 78

Evidence that tends to prove guilt.

Question 79

What is exculpatory evidence?

Answer 79

Evidence favorable to the defendant in a criminal trial that exonerates the defendant of guilt.

Question 80

What does allegation mean?

Answer 80

Statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal.

Question 81

What is discovery?

Answer 81

Discovery is the finding out of evidence that the other side has.

Question 82

What is Brady material?

Answer 82

Evidence that is favorable to the defendant on punishment or guilt. Example, evidence that there was another set of finger prints on a weapon that were not the defendants.