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Vocabulary exercises

I. Match the words with their definitions

1. amendment

a) a law or set of laws.

2. ballot

b) a moral rule or belief about what is right and wrong, that influences how you behave.

3. consent

c) a small change, improvement, or addition that is made to a law or document, or the process of doing this.

4. draft

d) a system of voting, usually in secret, or an occasion when you vote in this way.

5. lawmaker

e) agreement about something.

6. leg­islation

f) an initial unsigned agreement, treaty, or piece of legislation, which is not yet in force.

7. Opposition

g) any elected official responsible for making laws.

8. principle

h) the agreement of the Crown, given under the royal prerogative and signified either by the sovereign in person or by royal commissioners, that converts a Bill into an Act of Parliament.

9. Royal Assent

i) the main political party in the parliament that is not part of the government.

II. Match the verbs on the left with their corresponding definitions on the right

1. to amend

a) to choose someone or something from a group.

2. to approve

b) to disagree with an idea, argument, or suggestion.

3. to benefit

c) to get help or an advantage from something.

4. to limit

d) to give official agreement or permission to something.

5. to publish

e) to make changes to a document, law, agreement etc, especially in order to improve it.

6. to reject

f) to produce many copies of a book, magazine, or newspaper.

7. to select

g) to reduce or control someone's freedom to do what they want or someone's ability to be effective.

III. Match the words in column a with their synonyms in column b and antonyms in column c

A

B

C

Word

Synonym

Antonym

1. final

2a. analogous

3a. changing

2. general

2b. changeless

3b. communal

3. individual

2c. chief

3c. dependent

4. large

2d. civil

3d. different

5. main

2e. great

3e. first

6. new

2f. independent

3f. interrupted

7. private

2g. personal

3g. lowly

8. public

2h. recent

3h. minor

9. royal

2i. sovereign

3i. old

10. same

2j. ultimate

3j. private

11. similar

2k. uninterrupted

3k. small

12. successive

2l. widespread

3l. specific