5. Study the following groups of words that are often confused and misused. Explain their meaning and give your own examples illustrating their use.

1/ Lawful, constitutional, legal, legitimate, licit; 2/ precede, proceed;

3/ personnel, personal, personalty, personality; 4/ presume; assume;

5/ procedure, proceedings, proceeds.

6. Choose the verb that best completes the sentence.

1. I hope you are not _____________to me any intention to mislead the prosecution.

a) Impugn; b) impute; c) infringe; d) encroach.

2. The prosecutor____________ several supplementary facts to substantiate his culpability

a) Induced; b) deducted; c) reduced; d) adduced.

3. Before an Act of Parliament can become law, it needs to receive Royal _______________ from the monarch.

a) Consent; b) Assent; c) Dissent; d) Agreement.

4. The _______________ of today's festival will go to several local charities.

a) Proceedings; b) procedure; c) proceeds; d) preceding.

5. As a political party they are trying to_____________ a change in the way what we think about our environment.

a) Affect; b) effect; c) impact; d) influence.

6. The defendant _____________ that the police forced him to make false confessions.

a) Alleges; b) alludes; c) eludes; d) states .

7. The President has been _______________ of the situation.

a) Apprised; b) appraised; c) ascertained; d) approved .

8. You should ask a lawyer for advice on how to ____________ from here.

a) Precede; b) proceed; c) proceeding; d) accede.

9. The parliamentary _____________ is due to start on May 27th. a) Cession; b) cessation; c) session; d) setting.

10. The European Court shall ___________ a number of judges equal to that of the High Contracting Parties.

a) Comprise; b) compose of; c) consist of; d) include.

11. My lawyer is going to ___________ an application and file it with the Court.

a) Compile; b) compose; c) comprise; d) be composed.

12. Money laundering is legitimizing _____________ from organized or other crime by paying it through normal business channels.

a) Proceedings; b) procedure; c) proceeds; d) preceding.

13. Most of the civil servants involved in the affair have been successfully _____________ and dismissed.

a) Prosecuted; b) persecuted; c) precipitated; d) preceded.

14. Religious minorities were ____________ and massacred during the totalitarian

regime.

a) Proscribed; b) prosecuted; b) persecuted; c) precipitated.

15. The Scottish _____________ system is quite different from the English one. a) Constitutional; b) legal; c) lawful; d) legitimate.

16. In criminal cases the decision whether or not grant ______________ aid rests with the court, which will make a ... aid order when this is desirable in the interests of justice.

a) Constitutional; b) legal; c) lawful; d) legitimate.

17. ______________ comprises the formal steps to be taken in an action or other judicial _____________, criminal or civil.

a) Proceeding; b) procedure; c) proceeds; d) proceed.

18. The panel of five decided that ______________ would not be beneficial in her case.

a) Committal; b) commitment; c) proceedings; d) reference.

19. Safeguards are necessary to ___________ that people are not wrongfully put in prison.

a) Insure; b) ensure; ) assure; d) reassure.

20. The investigator's findings have been corroborated by the ____________ proofs provided by the inquiry

.

a) Mitigating; b) evidentiary; c) inconspicuous; d) obscure .