Week 27 of 36 · 10 words · ages 17–18

12th Grade spelling words, week 27: Legal words

Legal terms mostly come from Latin, so learn root and ending apart: the double p in appellate, the rb in arbitration.
culpable
Deserving blame for a wrong.
indemnity
Protection against loss or damage.
injunction
A court order to do or stop doing something.
statute
A written law passed by a legislature.
arbitration
Settling a dispute by a neutral outsider's ruling.
appellate
Having power to review a lower court's decision.
defamation
Harming someone's reputation by false statements.
litigant
A person involved in a lawsuit.
hearsay
Reports passed on by others rather than known firsthand by a witness.
tribunal
A court or body appointed to judge a matter.

Ten minutes a day this week

Short and daily beats long and once. A word met on five separate days is remembered; a word met five times on Thursday night mostly is not.

  1. Monday

    Read the list together. Say each word, clap its syllables and find the pattern in it.

  2. Tuesday

    Look, say, cover, write, check — each word once from memory, then check the letters.

  3. Wednesday

    Use every word in a sentence, out loud or on paper, so each one means something.

  4. Thursday

    Practice test: a grown-up reads each word aloud. Circle the misses for tomorrow.

  5. Friday

    The test. One try per word, no letters given. The circled words go first.

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