By admin On June 7th, 2010
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felon - Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime(severe criminal)
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felony - severe crime
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suborn - persuade to act unlawfully (especially to commit perjury)
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abscond - depart secretly and hide
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eg : The accountant absconded with the cash from the safe.
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skulk - move furtively and secretly
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accomplice – partner in crime
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complicity - involvement in crime
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connivance – pretence of being ignorant about a crime
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abet – to assist criminals
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punitive - pertaining to punishment
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condign punishment - appropriate punishment
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perdition - complete ruin; damnation
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salvation - the act of preserving or the stare of being preserved from harm
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retribution – punishment for offenses; vengeance; compensation
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reprieve – to postpone or remit the punishment of ( a person, esp one condemned to death)
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incendiary – arsonist
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arsonist – A criminal who illegally sets fire to property
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chasten - correct by punishment or scolding
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recrimination - Mutual accusations
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recidivist - Someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behaviour (especially for the same criminal behaviour)
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recidivism - habitual retun to crime
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nark – Inform or spy (for the police)
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alibi - (law) a defence by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question
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– A defence of some offensive behaviour or some failure to keep a promise etc.
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bail - (V)The legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody.
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eg : He is out on bail.
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- (N)Release after a security has been paid.
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sinister - evil
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eg : We must defeat the sinister that seek our downlfall.
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expiate - Make amends for (a sin)
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eg : expiate one’s sins
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decimate - Kill in large numbers
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asylum - a place for refugee or shelter
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extradition - surenderer of prisoner by one stare t another
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expatriate - exile
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repatriate - to send back(a refugee, prisoner of war etc.) to his birth or citizenship
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homicide - The killing of a human being by another human being
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regicide - The act of killing a king
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fratricide - A person who murders their brother or sister
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spat - minor dispute
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amoral - not moral
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mores - moral standards
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By admin On May 28th, 2010
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larceny – thief
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kleptomaniac – a person who has a compulsive desire to steal
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eg : They discovered that Naz was a kleptomaniac when they caught him stealing some cheap trinkets.
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filch – steal
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pilfer – to steal insignificant things
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rifle – to search in hurriedly in order to cheat
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eg : Who rifled through my desk drawers?
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bootlegging – illegal trade
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eg : They were bootlegging whisky.
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contraband – illegal things to trade
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shoplifting – steal in store
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ferret - to search around
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apprehend – arrest(a criminal); dread; perceive
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eg : The police will apprehend the culprit and convict him before long.
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collar – take into custody
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By admin On May 6th, 2010
Hanger:Airplance:: => Stable:Horse
Vane:Wiond Direction:: => Sundial:Time
Anonymous:Name:: => Shapeless:Form
Sympathy:Emotion:: => Friendship:Relationship
Habit:Customary:: => Reflex:Involuntary
Threat:Hostility:: => Compliment:Admiration
Ardent:Interested:: => Incensed:Annoyed
Vogue:Accepted:: => Disrepute:Shunned
Hyperbole:Language:: => Prodigality:spending
Studio:Artist:: => Laboratory:Chemist
Ripple:Tidal Wave:: => Breeze:Hurricane
Educational:Ignorance:: => Medicine:Disease
Bow:Violin:: => Drumstick:Drum
Dumbfound:Astonishment:: => Exasperate:Frustration
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By admin On May 5th, 2010
ASSUAGE : SORROW :: => dampen : ardor
DIE : SHAPING :: => drill : boring
PERFUNCTORILY : INSPIRATION :: => insolently : veneration
FAWN : IMPERIOUSNESS :: => equivocate : directness
CLOT : DISSOLVED :: => crowd : dispersed
STUDY : LEARN :: => search : find
BOISTEROUS: = quiet
JABBER: = speak slowly
AMALGAMATE: = separate
ENDORSE: = oppose publicly
GIST: = trivial point
ANARCHY: = order
BREACH: = solder
EXTANT: = extinct
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By admin On May 2nd, 2010
aritfice – cunning trick
syn – strategem, ploy, ruse
indifference – lack of interest
syn – insouciance, nonchalance
aggreement – compact, pact, accord
ant – discord
autonomous – independent or self government
definite decision – final decision
irrevocable – that can’t be cancelled
unanimous – agreed by all
unanimity – agreement by all
lucre – money earned in a dishonest way
lucrative – profitable
idosyncratic – odd
eg – idosyncratic behaviour
syn – bizarre
amivalent – having conflicting emotion at same time
(ami – both)
amidextrous – using both hands skillfully
detrimental, pernicious, deleterious, virulent – harmful
eg – virulent food
syn – pathogenic
ant – hygienic
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By admin On April 24th, 2010
nonplussed – baffled or puzzled
spurious – fake or phony
incorrigible – that can’t be reformed
langour – lack of energy
syn : lassitude, haggard
repine – to express anxiety
ramification – branching in all direction
quip – mockery
escapade – prank
impropriety – lack of proper manner
decrepitude – old and at ruining condition
depredation – plundering or attack
syn : fret
recuperate – improve
recidivism – commiting crime repeatedly
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