Assignment #1 English for lawyers

10 words

1.) Confabulation - is a symptom of various memory disorders in which made-up stories fill in
any gaps in memory. ... While this condition may at first sound like
lying, confabulation only occurs when you have a condition that affects your memory.
This is why confabulation is often described as “honestly lying.”
2.) rudiments - the first principles of…. Rudiment, usually used in the plural, means the
basics.
3.) chicanery - the use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose.
4.) Nil - Nil is a contraction of the Latin word for "nothing," zero
5.) Erudite - An erudite person has both deep and broad familiarity with general subjects
and is usually knowledgeable in a particular subject, by virtue of study and extensive
reading of the subject's literature.
6.) Canards - a false or unfounded report or story especially : a fabricated report The report
about a conspiracy proved to be a canard
7.) quo warranto - a writ or legal action requiring a person to show by what warrant an office
or franchise is held, claimed, or exercised.
8.) Phyrric - won at too great a cost to have been worthwhile for the victor.
9.) Iniquitous - grossly unfair and morally wrong.
10.) Denouement - the climax of a chain of events, usually when something is decided or
made clear.