Word Wealth WW Part II 2 Unit 5 english vocabulary
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- allege
- to declare or assert
- arraign
- to call before a court, summon to trial
- felony
- major crime
- bail
- bond guaranteeing he will return for trial
- docket
- calendar of cases to be tried
- bequeath
- to give or bestow in one's will
- intestate
- without a will
- probate
- testing by court
- disburse
- to pay out, expend (money)
- reimburse
- pay back
- bourse
- stock exchange in Paris
- bursar
- the treasurer in a college
- enroach
- to intrude, trespass
- invade
- move in hostily, disregarding the rights and wishes of the victim
- infringe
- to violate someone's rights or priveleges, especially in a patent
- presume
- to take it upon oneself to say or do something not ordinarily permissible
- arrogate
- zeize something (right, privelege) boldly
- exonerate
- to clear from blame
- absolve
- to realease someone from the consequences by requiring penance or granting forgiveness
- acquit
- clear a person after his innocence is proved
- exculpate
- to free someone from blame either because he was not guilty or because he was justified in what he did
- incriminate
- to involve or implicate in a crime
- discrimination
- skill or prejudice in observing differences
- recrimination
- counter-accusation
- actuary
- an insurance analyst and statistician
- actuate
- to put something in operation
- actualize
- carry something out
- activate
- to begin using something officially
- counteract
- to act against something
- alibi
- the claim of having been elsewhere when an offense was committed
- debenture
- interest-bearing bond, voucher of indebtedness
- debit
- a sum that one owes
- deficit
- the amount by which a sum of money falls short of what is expected, needed, or owed
- increment
- an increase (usually at specific intervals)
- libel
- written or printed defamation
- dafamation
- false and malicious attacks on someone's character or reputation
- slander
- spoken defamation, false report, or damaging statements
- calumny
- defamation, the making of false or malicious misrepresentation, either written, spoken, or otherwise expressed
- litigation
- a lawsuit, or legal disputation
- option
- a choice or a right of choice
- solvency
- ability to meet all financial obligations
- liabilities
- dangers one must face, especially sums of money that one must or may have to pay
- fiscal year
- the financial year, which begins at some time other than Janurary 1
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bereavement
derived from to rob - loss or desolation, especially by death
- condolence
- formal expression of sympathy
- compassion
- pity or sympathy, with an urge to help in some way
- commiseration
- strong sympathy expressed in a more personal, more intimate, and less formal or distant manner than condolence
- dirge
- a funeral hymn, a song or poem of grief
- requiem
- a musical composition or a dirge for the repose of the dead
- Requiem Mass
- a religious service for the dead
- obituary
- a death notice, usually in a newspaper, with a short biography
- necrology
- a list of persons who have died
- epitaph
- a tombstone inscription
- mausoleum
- a large tomb built above ground
- sepulchar
- a tomb somewhat less imposing than a mausoleum
- cenotaph
- meaning empty tomb, a monument honoring a person buried elsewhere
- sarcophagus
- a stone coffin, especially on with a carving or inscription on it
- intermetn
- burial
- cremation
- reducing a body to ashes, often takes place of burial
- disinter or exhume
- to remove something from the ground