1.
Minority: any small group in society that is different from the rest because of
their race, religion, or political beliefs, or a person who belongs to such a
group
2. Senior: older; high or higher in rank
3. Affordable: not expensive
4. Linger: to take a long time to leave or disappear:
5. Usher: to show someone where they should go, or to make someone go
where you want them to go
6. In mitigation: told something that makes a crime or fault easier to understand
and excuse.
7. Shrug: to raise your shoulders and then lower them in order to say you do not
know or are not interested
8. Squat: to position yourself close to the ground balancing on the front part of
your feet with your legs bent under your body
9. Shuffle: to walk by pulling your feet slowly along the ground rather than
lifting them
10.Confer: to exchange ideas on a particular subject, often in order to reach a
decision on what action to take
11.Plead guilty: to admit responsibility
12.A dual carriageway: a road which usually has two lanes of traffic travelling
in each direction
13.Magistrate: a person who acts as a judge in a law court that deals with crimes
that are less serious:
14.Be charged with: accused of a crime or wrongdoing
15.To brandish: to wave something in the air in a threatening or excited way
16.Roadhog: a driver who is dangerous because they do not think about other
drivers
17.Articulate: able to express thoughts and feelings easily and clearly, or
showing this quality:
18.Baffling: cause someone to be completely unable to understand or explain
something:
19.Guilty plea: when someone admits in court that they committed a crime
20.Mitigatory eulogies: speeches or writings that praise someone while also
trying to lessen or excuse their faults or mistakes
21.Pillars of community: people who are highly respected and play an important
role in supporting and improving their community.
22.To nick: to steal something
23.Be entitled to: you have been given the right to have or do something
24.To campaign for: to try to achieve something, such as the election of
someone to a political office, by taking part in a number of planned activities
25.Amnesty: a decision by a government that allows political prisoners to go
free
26.Religious creed: a set of beliefs or principles that guide a religion
27.Out of court settlement: when people solve a legal problem by agreeing on a
solution without a trial or before the court makes a final decision
28.Liability: the fact that someone is legally responsible for something
29.To detain: to force someone officially to stay in a place
30.Distressed: upset or worried
31.A real eye-opener: something that surprises you and teaches you new facts
about life, people
32.Humane: treating people or animals in a way that is not cruel and causes
them as a little suffering as possible
33.Peace-keeping force: a group of soldiers or officials sent to maintain peace
and stop fighting between opposing groups
34.To station: to cause especially soldiers to be in a particular place to do a job
35.Amateur: taking part in an activity for pleasure, not as a job
36.Tough: Strict in controlling what is allowed or in punishing those who break
rules or laws.
37.Cunning: Cunning people are smart at planning things to get what they want,
often by tricking others. It can also describe things made in a clever way for a
specific purpose.
38.Excuse: a reason that you give to explain why you did something wrong
39.Talk your way out of: to persuade people that you should do something/not
do something by the reasons you give
40.Get away with: to succeed in avoiding punishment for something
41.To film: to record moving pictures with a camera, usually to make a film for
television or the cinema
42.Crash: If something such as a business crashes, it suddenly fails or becomes
unsuccessful
43.Heck: an expression of usually slight anger or surprise, or a way of adding
force to a statement, question, etc.
44.Penalty: a punishment, or the usual punishment, for doing something that is
against a law
45.Wanton: causing harm or acting without showing care for others, often
intentionally
46.A built up area: one where there are a lot of buildings
47.Online predator: individual who uses the Internet to commit sexual abuse or
harassment, specifically of children and of teenagers younger than the legal
age of consent
48.Keep tabs on smb/smt: make sure that they always know where you are and
what you are doing, often in order to control you
49.Grief: very great sadness, especially at the death of someone
50.Trauma: severe and lasting emotional shock and pain caused by an extremely
upsetting experience, or a case of such shock happening
51.Murder: the crime of intentionally killing a person
52.Embezzlement: the crime of secretly taking money that is in your care or
that belongs to an organization or business you work for
53.Jaywalking: the action of walking across a street at a place where it is
not allowed or without taking care to avoid the traffic
54.Manslaughter: the crime of killing a person when the killer did not intend to
do it or cannot be responsible for his or her actions
55.Vandalism: damaging property belonging to other people:
56.Littering: the act of dropping rubbish on the ground in public place
57.Fraud: the crime of getting money by deceiving people
58.Slander: a false spoken statement about someone
that damages their reputation, or the making of such a statement
59.Loitering with intent: Staying in a place without a clear purpose but with the
suspicion of planning to commit a crime or wrongdoing
60.Mugging: an act of attacking someone and stealing their money
61.Libel: a piece of writing that contains bad and false things about a person
62.Trespassing: to go onto someone's land or enter their building
63.Prosecutor: a legal official who accuses someone
of committing a crime, especially in a law court(доводить провину)
64.Constable: a British police officer of the lowest rank
65.Probation officer: a person whose job is to regularly see people who
have committed crimes and who are on probation, and to help them
to avoid committing crimes again
66.Probation: a period of time when a criminal must behave well and
not commit any more crimes in order to avoid being sent to prison
67.Solicitor: a type of lawyer in Britain and Australia who
is trained to prepare cases and give advice on legal subjects and
can represent people in lower courts(складє документи)
68.Barrister: a type of lawyer in the UK, Australia, and some
other countries who can give specialized legal advice and can argue a case in
both higher and lower courts(представляє приватний )
69.Juctice of the peace: a person who is not a lawyer but who acts as
a judge in local law courts and, in the US, can marry people
70.Juror: a person who is a member of a jury, a group of people chosen to listen
to the facts in a legal case and decide if someone is guilty or not guilty.
71.Revocation of a privilege: taking away a special right, benefit or permission
that someone previously had
72.Prison term: The length of time a person is required to stay in prison as
punishment for committing a crime
73.Court warning: a letter notifying you of sth
74.Parole: permission for a prisoner to
be released before their period in prison is finished, with the agreement that
they will behave well
75.Capital punishment: punishment by death, as ordered by a legal system
76.Community service: work done without payment to help other people.
Criminals whose crime was not serious enough for them to be put
in prison are sometimes ordered to do community service.
77.Fine: an amount of money that has to be paid as a punishment for
not obeying a rule or law
78. Crook: a very dishonest person, especially a criminal or a cheat
79.Handcuffs: two metal or plastic rings joined by a short chain that lock around
a prisoner's wrists
80. Felony: (an example of) serious crime that can be punished by one or more
years in prison
81. Surveillance system: a network of cameras, monitors/display units, and
recorders
82. Gang: a group of criminals who work together
83. Inmate: a person who is kept in a prison or a hospital for people who are
mentally ill
84. Homicide: (an act of) murder
85. Intruder: someone who enters a place without permission in order to commit
a crime
86. Perpetrate: to commit a crime or a violent or harmful act
87. Riot: an occasion when a large number of people behave in a noisy, violent,
and uncontrolled way in public, often as a protest
88.Tear bomb: a bomb containing tear gas
89. Heat-seeking device: able to find and follow heat
90.Truncheon: a thick, heavy stick used as a weapon by police officers
91. Misdemeanor: a crime considered to be one of the less serious types of crime
92. Assassination: to kill someone famous or important
93. Supreme court: the most important law court in the US
94. Magistrate court: a court that deals with crimes that are not serious
95. Acquittal: the decision of a court that someone is not guilty
96. Perjury: the crime of telling lies in court when you have promised to tell the
truth
97. Contempt of court: the crime of being disrespectful toward a court of law
98. Suborning a witness: trying to persuade a witness to lie or provide false
information in court.
99. Break out of prison: Escape from jail or prison illegally.
100. Take/make a stand on/against: To strongly support or oppose
something.
101. Make an arrest: To capture someone suspected of a crime.
102. Pay for one's crime: To be punished for committing a crime.
103. Make amends for: To do something to correct a mistake or
wrongdoing.
104. Do one's bit: To do your part or contribute to a group effort.
105. Take the blame: To accept responsibility for something bad that
happened.
106. Pay a fine/penalty: To give money as punishment for breaking a law
or rule.
107. Break/pase a law: To do something against the law.
108. Lay down the law: To tell people what rules they must follow, usually
in a strict way.
109. Do/serve time in prison: To spend time in prison as a punishment for a
crime.
110. Serve sb with a warrant: To officially give someone a legal document
that orders them to do something, like appearing in court.
111. Commit a crime: To do something illegal.
112. Plead guilty: To admit in court that you did something wrong or broke
the law.
113. Reach a verdict: To make a final decision in a trial about whether
someone is guilty or not.
114. Give evidence: To provide information or facts in court to help decide
if someone is guilty or innocent.
115. Foot the bill for sth: to pay for something, esp. something expensive
116. On the fringes of society: people or groups who are not part of the
main or normalpart of society
117. Take the law into one`s own hands: to do something illegal and
often violent in order to punish someone because you know the law will
not punish that person
118. Kill two birds with one stone: solving two tasks at the same time or
with one single action.
119. Throw oneself on the mercy of the court: to beg for mercy
120. Bridge the generation gap: To help people of different ages understand
each other better and reduce the differences between their ways of thinking,
living, or communicating
121. The law of the jungle: the idea that people who care only about
themselves will be most likely to succeed in a society or organization
122. Rob Peter to pay Paul: to borrow money from
one person to pay back money you borrowed from someone else
123. Make a killing on sth: make a large profit very quickly and easily.
124. Charity begins at home: You should take care of your family and
other people who live close to you before helping people who
are living further away or in another country
125. Cut off: To stop or interrupt something, like cutting off a conversation
or a service.( відрізати, припиняти)
126. Passed over: To be ignored or not chosen for something, like a job or
opportunity.( бути проігнорованим, не обраним)
127. Cut in: To interrupt someone while they're speaking or doing
something.( втручатися, перебивати)
128. Passed away: A polite way of saying someone has died.
129. Cut back: To reduce or lower something, like spending or resources.
( зменшувати, скорочувати)
130. Passed out: To lose consciousness, often from being tired or injured.
( втратити свідомість)
131. Pass on: To give something to someone else or, when referring to
someone, it can also mean to die.
132. Cut down: To reduce the amount of something, or to physically chop
something, like a tree.
Tribunal
Liberation
Burglary
Theft
Race against the clock
Go against the establishment
Go against sb`s wishes
Go against the law
Go against one`s principles
Go against sb`s advice
Will against all odds
