vocabulary unit 5 Flashcards
a violent attack
assault
the act of getting money from people or
forcing them to do something by
threatening to tell a secret or to harm
them
blackmail
attempts to make someone do something,
usually something dishonest, by offering
them money or gifts
bribery
the crime of illegally entering a building
and stealing things
burglary
the crime of harming a child in a physical,
sexual or emotional way
child abuse
the crime of getting money by deceiving
people
fraud
the crime of intentionally killing someone
murder
the crime of stealing things out of people’s
pockets or bags, especially in a crowd.
pickpocketing
the action or crime of stealing something
theft
to say that someone has done something
bad/wrong
to accuse
a statement in which you say that
someone has done something bad/wrong
an accusation
taking someone away to ask them about a
crime that they might have committed
to arrest
an occasion when the police take someone
away to ask them about a crime that they
might have committed
an arrest
to catch someone and make them your
prisoner
to capture
to accuse someone officially of a crime
(often passive)
to charge
a formal police statement saying that
someone is accused of a crime
a charge
to work with someone else for a special
purpose
to collaborate
the activity of working together to create
or achieve the same thing
a collaboration
to take part in a race / to try to be more
successful than someone else
to compete
a situation in which someone is trying to
win something or be more successful than
someone else
a competition
to guess the cost, size, value, etc of
something
to estimate
a guess of what a size, value, amount, etc
might be
an estimate
to look at someone/something very
carefully, especially to try to discover
something
to examine
an occasion when someone looks at
something very carefully
an examination
