Vocab 2

Question 1

neuter

Answer 1

gender neuter, so ‘it’

Question 2

impassive

Answer 2

not feeling or showing emotion

Question 3

to crouch

Answer 3

bented knees and body down in order to defend oneself

Question 4

to hunch

Answer 4

body forward and shoulders up, e.g. he hunched over his glass

Question 5

warrant-card

Answer 5

ID of a police officer

Question 6

custody

Answer 6

the protective care or guardianship of someone or something

Question 7

jurisdiction

Answer 7

the official power to make legal decisions and judgements

Question 8

claimant

Answer 8

A person making a claim, especially in a lawsuit or for a state benefit

Question 9

cattery

Answer 9

A boarding or breeding establishment for cats

Question 10

to flare

Answer 10

A sudden brief burst of bright flame or light

Question 11

magistrate

Answer 11

A civil officer who administers the law, especially one who conducts a court that deals with minor offences and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones

Question 12

to escalate

Answer 12

increase rapidly

Question 13

inertia

Answer 13

A tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged

Question 14

insidious

Answer 14

Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects

Question 15

exertion

Answer 15

Physical or mental effort

Question 16

To bring sb to book

Answer 16

Jdn zur Rechenschaft ziehen

Question 17

To protest one’s innocence

Answer 17

Seine Unschuld beteueren

Question 18

An open-and-shut case

Answer 18

Ein glasklarer Fall

Question 19

To read sb the riot act

Answer 19

Jdm die Leviten lesen

Question 20

To take the law into one’s own hands

Answer 20

Selbstjustiz üben

Question 21

To find a loophole in the law

Answer 21

Eine Gesetzeslücke

Question 22

Law-abiding

Answer 22

Follow the law

Question 23

To throw the book at sb

Answer 23

Punish him as hard as possible