Laser B2 - Unit 12 - the law Flashcards
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| 4398749748 | desensitise | to cause someone to experience something, usually an emotion or a pain, less strongly than before: "Seeing too much violence on television can desensitize people to it." | 0 | |
| 4398751987 | whodunnit | a story about a crime and the attempt to discover who committed it: "It's one of those whodunnits where you don't find out who the murderer is till the very end." | 1 | |
| 4398754531 | violence | an act of hurting or killing someone else | 2 | |
| 4398755378 | fiction | books and stories about imaginary people and events | 3 | |
| 4398757072 | thriller | a book or movie with an exciting story, often about crime | 4 | |
| 4398758284 | acceptable (adj.) | good enough "A crime rate of 13 percent amongst teenangers is not acceptable." | 5 | |
| 4398763350 | the law law | the system of official rules in a country an official rule in a country "There are laws against drinking in the street." | 6 | |
| 4398763351 | lawyer | someone whose job is to explain the law to people and give advice | 7 | |
| 4398763799 | crime | illegal activities | 8 | |
| 4398769428 | murder (noun) | the crime of killing someone | 9 | |
| 4398773649 | to murder (verb) | to kill someone | 10 | |
| 4398769429 | robbery | the crime of stealing from someone or somewhere | 11 | |
| 4398769430 | shoplifting | the act of taking things from a shop without paying for them | 12 | |
| 4398770720 | to commit (a crime) | to do something bad or illegal | 13 | |
| 4398770892 | to break the law | to do something that the law says you must not do | 14 | |
| 4398771531 | to catch a criminal | coger a un criminal | 15 | |
| 4398771775 | to be arrested | If the police arrest someone, they take the person away to ask them about a crime that they might have committed. "He was arrested for possession of illegal drugs." | 16 | |
| 4398772345 | to be taken to court | estar llevado al tribunal | 17 | |
| 4398787436 | coincidence | an occasion when two very similar things happen at the same time by chance | 18 | |
| 4398787437 | politician | someone who works in politics, especially a member of the government | 19 | |
| 4398787764 | re-enact | act again | 20 | |
| 4398787765 | misleading | giving a mistaken impression | 21 | |
| 4398788086 | repercussion | result, effect (normally bad) | 22 | |
| 4398794411 | hardly | apenas | 23 | |
| 4398794412 | barely | apenas | 24 | |
| 4398794413 | scarcely | apenas | 25 | |
| 4398794782 | no sooner | apenas - "when ... immediately" "No sooner had we set off than we realized we'd left the dog behind." | 26 | |
| 4398795174 | under no circumstances | used to say that something must never happen "bajo ningún concepto" | 27 | |
| 4398803843 | the accused | the person(s) accused in a court of law "The accused was found not guilty." | 28 | |
| 4398808359 | to accuse | (with "of") to charge (someone) with having done something wrong "They accused him of stealing the car."· | 29 | |
| 4398804157 | fraud | fraude | 30 | |
| 4398804158 | innocent | opposite: guilty inocente | 31 | |
| 4398804159 | witness | someone who sees an accident or crime "testigo" |  | 32 |
| 4398804497 | judge (noun; verb) | juez; considerar | 33 | |
| 4398804498 | jury | a group of people in a court of law who decide if someone has committed a crime "jurado" | 34 | |
| 4398804722 | solicitor | in the UK, a lawyer who gives legal advice and help "abogado, -a" |  | 35 |
| 4398804723 | verdict | a decision in a court of law saying if someone has committed a crime "veredicto, fallo" | 36 | |
| 4398805593 | evidence | something that makes you believe that something is true or exists pruebas | 37 | |
| 4398810697 | to make off | largarse | 38 | |
| 4398812027 | to let someone off | to let sb off with a fine = poner sólo una multa a alguien | 39 | |
| 4398812028 | to go off | explode, "estallar" | 40 | |
| 4398812682 | to get away with | to do (something bad) without being punished for it salir impune, quedar sin castigo | 41 | |
| 4398813187 | to break in (somewhere) | entrar (para robar) | 42 | |
| 4398813452 | to be set up | culpabilizar a alguien de algo | 43 | |
| 4398814063 | to beat someone up | dar una paliza a alguien | 44 | |
| 4422051061 | crime (noun) | criminal (person) |  | 45 |
| 4422051967 | to accuse | accused (person being accused) | 46 | |
| 4422053985 | offence (noun) | delito - offender (person) | 47 | |
| 4422054882 | law | lawyer (person) | 48 | |
| 4422054883 | to rob | robber (person) | 49 | |
| 4422055463 | theft (act) | thief (person) | 50 | |
| 4422056060 | murder (act) | murderer (person) | 51 | |
| 4422056061 | to convict | condenar - convict (person), presidiario,-a | 52 | |
| 4422071531 | dishonest | deshonesto,-a | 53 | |
| 4422071532 | fake | falsificación | 54 | |
| 4422072067 | fraud | fraude | 55 | |
| 4422072068 | genuine | real, sincere, not fake, true | 56 | |
| 4422072475 | illegal | not legal | 57 | |
| 4422072476 | immoral | not correct, not honest | 58 | |
| 4422072883 | pirated goods | used to describe software, films, recordings, etc. that have been illegally copied to be sold at much cheaper prices | 59 | |
| 4422073606 | theft | the action or crime of stealing something |  | 60 |
| 4422073607 | (to) forge money | to make an illegal copy of something (money) in order to deceive people | 61 |