Check your vocabulary for Law – Opposites 2

Opposites 2
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THE WORDS BELOW are all from the world of Law. Match them into pairs with opposites meanings and write them in the table. The first one has been done for you as an example: guilty and innocent are opposites.
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accidental - acquit – borrow – bring forward – cancel – civil – confess – confirm – convict – criminal – defense – defendant – defer – deliberate – deny – guilty – imprison – innocent – landlord – lend – plaintiff – prosecution – release – tenant
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Exercise 2. Complete these twelve sentences. Use one Word from each pair of opposites. The first one has been done for you as an example.
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1. He was found ___guilty___ and sentenced to two years in prison
2. There was insufficient evidence for the court to __________ her.
3. As the accused was seriously ill, the judge decided to _________ the trial until the 23rd.
4. The _________ says he cannot pay the amount the court has awarded.
5. According to the terms of the contract, if the __________ doesn’t pay the rent for two months he can be evicted.
6. The police were accused of using torture to make suspects _____________.
7. Before you _________ such a large amount of money, are you sure you can repay it?
8. He brought a ___________ action against the company, claiming that the accident had been caused by a manufacturing fault in the automobile.
9. He has served twelve years in prison and the authorities will _________ him tomorrow.
10. The ___________ case is that the accused could not have committed these crimes as he was in Glasgow on the day in question.
11. I’m afraid I’ll have to ___________ our meeting on the 16th – I have to go to Berlin on that day to see a client.
12. The question is this: when he left the gun in the room was it a __________ plan or a moment of carelessness?
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Extension: Work with a partner and test each other with questions like: “What’s the opposite of guilty?”
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ANSWERS:
accidental / deliberate
acquit / convict
borrow / lend
bring forward / defer
cancel / confirm
civil / criminal
confess / deny
defense / prosecution
defendant / plaintiff
guilty / innocent
imprison / release
landlord / tenant
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Exercise 2
1. guilty – 2. convict – 3. defer – 4. defendant – 5. tenant – 6. confess – 7. borrow – 8. civil – 9. release - 10. defense – 11. cancel – 12. deliberate