Vocab

Question 1

To shorten (a word or phrase)

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Abbreviate

Question 2

To encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing

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Abet

Question 3

A scraped spot or area

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Abrasion

Question 4

To free from guilt or blame or their consequences

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Absolve

Question 5

To take or receive; receive with approval or favor

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Accept

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A person who knowingly helps another in a crime or wrongdoing, often as a subordinate

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Accomplice

Question 7

Agreement, conformity

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Accordance

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To come into possession or ownership of; get as one’s own

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Acquire

Question 9

In opposition to; adverse or hostile to

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Against

Question 10

Characterized by some feature defined by law that enhances the crime, as the intention of the criminal or the special vulnerability of the victim

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Aggravated

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A person, group, or nation that attacks first or initiates hostilities

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Aggressor

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An assumed or false identity

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Alias

Question 13

The defense by an accused person of having been elsewhere at the time an alleged offense was committed

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Alibi

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Foreigner(offensive)

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Alien

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Without any name acknowledged

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Anonymous

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Response to a question

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Answer

Question 17

Readily seen; exposed to sight; open to view; visible

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Apparent

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The way things look or seem

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Appearance

Question 19

The act of arresting

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Apprehension

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An oral disagreement; verbal opposition; contention, altercation

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Argument

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A final settlement, adjustment by agreement

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Arrangement

Question 22

An unlawful physical attack upon another; an attempt or offer to do violence to another.

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Assault

Question 23

The killing of one human being by another

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Homicide

Question 24

A white, crystalline, narcotic powder. Derived from morphine

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Heroin

Question 25

Of, pertaining to, employment in, or administered by injection into a vein

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Intravenous

Question 26

Neglect of duties, or left deserted

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Derelict

Question 27

A state of euphoria

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Ecstasy

Question 28

An offense,as murder or burglary

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Felony

Question 29

The breaking into of any various buildings

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Burglary

Question 30

A tear roughly; mangle

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Laceration

Question 31

The wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another from his or her possession with intent to convert them to the taker’s own use

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Larceny

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Present but not visible, apparent, or actualized; existing as potential

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Latent

Question 33

The contact or connection maintained by communications between units

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Liaison

Question 34

A criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony

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Misdemeanor

Question 35

Guilty of or characterized by lazily carelessly, offhand, as of duty

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Negligent

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An authoritative rule or law, a decree or command. A public injunction or regulation

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Ordinance

Question 37

To affect with sharp irritation and resentment, especially by some wound to pride. To wound. To excite.

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Pique

Question 38

An enactment made by a legislature and expressed in a formal document. The document in which such an enactment is expressed.

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Statute

Question 39

Authorization, sanction, or justification

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Warrant