Экзамен зачет учебный год 2023 / Unit 3 text 1 [AV]

UNIT III TEXT 1 ACTIVE VOCABULARY

TO VEST (IN)

To place something, such as authority, property, or rights, in the control of someone or some group.

TO VEST (WITH)

To invest or endow someone or some group with something, such as power or rights.

TO LIST

1.To set down or enter (information) in a list.

2.To register (a security) on an exchange so that it may be publicly traded.

3.To place (property) for sale under an agreement with a real-estate agent or broker.

TO SET OUT

To recite, explain, narrate, or incorporate (facts or circumstances) <set out the terms of the contract>.

— Also termed set forth.

TO RAISE

1.To increase in amount or value <the industry raised prices> .

2.To gather or collect <the charity raised funds> .

3.To bring up for discussion or consideration; to introduce or put forward <the party raised the issue in its pleading> .

4.To create or establish <the person's silence raised an inference of consent> .

5.To increase the stated amount of (a negotiable instrument) by fraudulent alteration <the indorser raised the check> .

TO GRANT

1.To give or confer (something), with or without compensation <the parents granted the car to their daughter on her 16th birthday> .

2.To formally transfer (real property) by deed or other writing <the Lewisons granted the townhouse to the Bufords> .

3.To permit or agree to <the press secretary granted the reporter access to the Oval Office> .

4.To approve, warrant, or order (a request, motion, etc.) <the court granted the continuance> .

5.Int'l law. Financial assistance given by one country to another to preserve the receiving country's neutrality or to support it in a war, even if the donor country does not directly participate.

TO EMPOWER

1.To grant someone the authority to do something.

2.To inspire one to be more assertive, proactive, etc., especially in pursuit of a particular goal.

TO ABOLISH

To annul, eliminate, or destroy, esp. an ongoing practice or thing; specif., to officially end an established law, system, tradition, etc.

TO OUTLAW

1.To deprive (someone) of the benefit and protection of the law; to declare an outlaw <outlaw the fugitive> .

2.To make illegal <outlaw fireworks within city limits> .

3.To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; to deprive of legal force <outlaw a claim under the statute> .

TO ANNUL

1.To make or declare void or invalid, as a marriage or a law; nullify.

2.To bring to an end the effect or existence of; cancel out.

PROVISION

1.A clause in a statute, contract, or other legal instrument.

2.A stipulation made beforehand.

CLAUSE

1.A distinct section or provision of a legal document or instrument.

2.In drafting, a subpart of text that is the next smaller unit than a subparagraph. • In federal drafting.

EXCESS

1.The amount or degree by which something is greater than another.

2.The action of exceeding one's authority or overstepping a prescribed limit or going beyond one's rights.

3.Immoderate or undue indulgence, esp. in food or drink. — excessive, adj.

CHECK

A draft, other than a document draft, signed by the drawer, payable on demand, drawn on a bank, and unconditionally negotiable. • The term includes a cashier's check or teller's check. An instrument may be a check even though it is described on its face by another term, such as “money order.”