to abuse
/əbˈjus/, /əbˈjuz/
verbto sexually assault a person, especially women and children
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1. I have not personally experienced domestic violence and abuse in that regard, but I have experienced child abuse.
2. I have not personally experienced domestic violence and abuse in that regard, but I have experienced child abuse.
3. People are abusing their disabled spouses, girlfriends, partners, boyfriend, family members, kids, parents, siblings.
4. Only a crazy person would abuse a perfectly good phone.
5. Thousands and thousands abused.
to assault
/əˈsɔɫt/
verbto violently attack someone
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1. An ice just assaulted me.
2. He then assaulted a female officer.
3. Discriminatory laws, assaults on the independence of the judiciary, suppression of political competition, police violence, and similar products of populism are human rights violations.
4. And these new belligerent cops assault the mother.
5. Your hearing is now assaulted.
to hijack
/ˈhaɪˌdʒæk/
verbto take control of a flying plane or moving vehicle or ship using threats or violence, particularly forcing it to change direction and go to a different location or demanding something in return
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1. Not 'hijack'!
2. Hijack this.
3. You've hijacked my tortilla machine. -
4. Your mind hijacks you out of your emotions.
5. - Hijack a plane.
to kidnap
/ˈkɪdˌnæp/
verbto take someone away and hold them in captivity, typically to demand something for their release
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1. They kidnapped the dog.
2. - She has kidnapped my mother. -
3. Kidnapping the mayor, and his daughter.
4. I kidnapped the vice president.
5. - My son was kidnapped.
to mug
/ˈməɡ/
verbto steal from someone by threatening them or using violence, particularly in a public place
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1. Coffee mugs exist for coffee drinkers.
2. I love mugs.
3. Each individual will receive three mugs.
4. Vases, wall pieces, jewelry, and we even sell coffee mugs.
5. - Have you guys ever seen this mug?
to rape
/ˈɹeɪp/
verbto force someone to have sex against their will, particularly by using violence or threatening them
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1. Rape has a huge impact on an individual's life.
2. Here, rape carries one of the lightest punishments in Europe.
3. To stop rape.
4. Rape is a crime of inequality.
5. Rape is a taboo subject.
to pirate
/ˈpaɪɹət/
verbto illegally copy, use, or sell someone else's work or product, such as a book, song, etc.
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1. Just then, pirates attack the ship.
2. Pirates get booty anyway.
3. Parents, pirates are awesome.
4. For the first time, pirates actively engaged English shipping.
5. Pirates never made treasure maps.
to vandalize
/ˈvændəˌɫaɪz/
verbto intentionally damage something, particularly public property
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1. Dr. Knox’s home was also frequently vandalized.
2. Don't vandalize.
3. Or vandalizing my house.
4. In July of 2019, which iconic United States landmark was notably vandalized by graffiti artists?
5. Could be vandalizing things.
arson
/ˈɑɹsən/
nounthe criminal act of setting something on fire, particularly a building
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1. You think I'm just waltzing around the city like an arson, waiting for firefighters to come, be like, 'What do you do today, sir?
2. One arson suspect was arrested.
3. The charges range from arson to weapons violations.
4. This is arson.
5. - Attempted arson -
blackmail
/ˈbɫækˌmeɪɫ/
nounthe crime of demanding money or benefits from someone by threatening to reveal secret or sensitive information about them
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1. - Not blackmail.
2. Emotional blackmail is a form of manipulation and emotional abuse.
3. - That's blackmail.
4. The biggest source of income for Libyan criminal gangs is blackmail.
5. - Blackmailed.
deception
/dɪˈsɛpʃən/
nounthe action of intentionally making a person believe something that is untrue
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1. Deception can cost billions.
2. Deception is actually serious business.
3. A fourth strategy is deception.
4. Floating deception.
5. So, most animals do some deception.
break-in
/ˈbɹeɪˌkɪn/
nounan illegal entry into a building by using force, particularly in order to steal something
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1. In addition, the break-in period for carbon steel pans is generally quicker because the surface is smoother.
2. The last break-in reported to the Morrison County Sheriff's Office took place the previous October.
3. Naturally, a break-in and anti-theft alarm system and an alarm siren are on board.
4. There are break-ins.
5. Fortunately, all four break-ins were stopped.
bribe
/ˈbɹaɪb/
nounan amount of money or something of value given to someone in order to persuade them to do something that is illegal
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1. Accepting bribes from Coursera.
2. - Thank you, sir. - Ooh, bribe money!
3. Bribe the bouncer.
4. Number five is bribes.
5. Bribes are the permissive parents version of threats.
forgery
/ˈfɔɹdʒɝi/
nounthe criminal act of making a copy of a document, money, etc. to do something illegal
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1. People still write forgeries today.
2. We call those forgeries.
3. Two letters by Peter I would call forgeries.
4. And forgery is one of those crimes.
5. Those orders were a forgery.
genocide
/ˈdʒɛnəˌsaɪd/
nouna mass murder committed in order to destroy a particular nation, religious or ethnic group, or race
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1. It was genocide.
2. Then, after 1500, Spanish genocide definitively crushed high Mayan culture.
3. What's going on is genocide.
4. I love kitty genocides!
5. She's literally promoting genocide.
phishing
noun
a cybercrime in which someone tricks another into revealing their personal or financial information such as their passwords or bank account numbers and then using this information to steal money from them
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1. Now, the second common attempt at phishing is what I'll call the misleading attachment.
2. Be aware of scams and phishing.
3. Phishing tries to trick users into thinking the request comes from the company.
4. Phishing scams come in all shapes and sizes.
5. Let's talk about Phishing.
scammer
/ˈskæmɝ/
nounsomeone who deceives people to get their money
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1. In one huge class action verdict, the scammers are paying $925 million in damages.
2. The scammer probably gets away with a lot.
3. You scammer!
4. You scammer.
5. You scammer.
swindler
/ˈswɪndəɫɝ/, /ˈswɪndɫɝ/
nouna person who deceives or cheats people out of money
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1. The experienced swindler took Smith for half of his month’s salary.
2. From the Belle Epoque to the Great Depression, through the Roaring Twenties and across two continents, this elegant swindler eluded the grasp of the law while racking in hundreds of thousands of Dollars.
3. Yes, he's a swindler.
4. He was probably a swindler.
5. Now the swindlers asked for more money, silk and gold-cloth, which they required for weaving.
ransom
/ˈɹænsəm/
nounan amount of money demanded or paid for the release of a person who is in captivity
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1. We paid a small ransom.
2. They write ransom notes.
3. You cannot ransom the life of a murderer.
4. We introduced kidnap ransom insurance.
5. You could demand ransom for them.
riot
/ˈɹaɪət/
nouna situation when a group of people behave violently, particularly as a protest
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1. Some protesters have rioted.
2. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. triggered riots across major cities in America, especially in Chicago.
3. Running riot!
4. Riots often involved a strong element of ritual.
5. In conditions like that, tuberculosis runs riot.
fine
/ˈfaɪn/
nounan amount of money that must be paid as a legal punishment
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1. Thanks to God, unbelievably, bothpilots are fine.
2. So no issues there, 99% is fine.
3. The cart always seams fine.
4. Fine, makes sense.
5. - A peck, yeah, a peck is fine.
to bug
/ˈbəɡ/
verbto hide a special microphone somewhere in order to secretly listen to a conversation
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1. - People all over the world do eat bugs.
2. So bugs turn big molecules into little molecules.
3. - Who eats bugs?
4. Bugs have a real distinct scent to them.
5. Nobody needs bugs.
alibi
/ˈæɫəˌbaɪ/
nounproof that indicates a person was somewhere other than the place where a crime took place and therefore could not have committed it
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1. That car alarm is my alibi.
2. - You mean his alibi?
3. You need an alibi again?
4. Your alibi checks out.
5. However, Russ' alibi seemed airtight.
accomplice
/əˈkɑmpɫəs/
nounsomeone who helps another to commit a crime or do a wrongdoing
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1. An ally, quite frankly, is an accomplice.
2. A second accomplice waited in a getaway car.
3. These accomplices could be anybody.
4. The moderator in the room is our accomplice, Nicole Wells.
5. The moderator in the room is our accomplice, Nicole Wells.
conspirator
/kənˈspɪɹətɝ/
nouna person involved in a conspiracy
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1. He only names one conspirator as Crassus.
2. About sixty conspirators decided that Caesar had to be killed.
3. Inside of their togas, the conspirators hid daggers.
4. The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
5. He met his fellow conspirators at a hotel in Tokyo.
assassin
/əˈsæsən/
nounsomeone who murders an important person for money or religious or political reasons
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1. You have $200 assassins.
2. An assassin has taken yet another world leader away from us.
3. - Kiss an assassin?
4. Fredegunde hires assassins to kill Sigebert.
5. The virus inside you is a stealth assassin.
bandit
/ˈbændət/
nouna robber who attacks travelers and is a member of a group of robbers
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1. The bandits got away with the huge sum of $30,000.
2. You've got a bandit.
3. Bandits become a dangerous epidemic.
4. Instead, in this case, the bandits attack the audience.
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gangster
/ˈɡæŋstɝ/
nouna member of a group of criminals
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1. I played a gangster.
2. - That's gangster.
3. Gangsters may be punched.
4. Gangsters may be punched.
5. At the same time, triad gangsters attacked pro-democracy campaigners in Yuen Long, a district of the new territories.
juvenile delinquent
/dʒˈuːvənˌaɪl dɪlˈɪnkwənt/
nouna young person who commits a crime
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1. Here's a man who was just a Juvenile Delinquent.
imprisonment
/ˌɪmˈpɹɪzənmənt/
nounthe action of putting someone in prison
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1. Navalny's imprisonment has also triggered mass protests across Russia.
2. And the whole system is an imprisonment.
3. Erring on the side of caution in this judge's life had meant imprisonment.
4. Women can get life imprisonment or even the death penalty.
5. That's imprisonment.
inmate
/ˈɪnˌmeɪt/
nouna prisoner
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1. The facility in Wetumpka houses about a thousand inmates.
2. Inmates even have pretty great views out of their cell windows.
3. In this prison, each inmate has their own little kitchenette and comfortable seating, as well as access to movies and projecters.
4. Inside the prison, inmates now kept their distance from Vickers.
5. Federal inmates are making the guidance systems for the Patriot missile system.
convict
/ˈkɑnvɪkt/, /kənˈvɪkt/
nouna person found guilty of a crime and sent to prison
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1. - They convicted an innocent man.
2. The police chief was convicted.
3. So just this one investigation at that one farm in Wisconsin-- four of the employees were convicted of multiple counts of animal cruelty.
4. None were convicted.
5. Only one soldier was ever convicted.
capital punishment
/kˈæpɪɾəl pˈʌnɪʃmənt/
nounthe killing of a criminal as punishment
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1. Norway banned capital punishment in 1905.
2. Is capital punishment morally permissible?
3. They don't understand capital punishment.
4. It's about capital punishment.
5. NO Do you support capital punishment?
confession
/kənˈfɛʃən/
nouna formal statement made by a person admitting that they are guilty of a crime
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1. I have a confession.
2. One confession is true.
3. Confessions extracted under duress.
4. Martha's confession is the powerful confession.
5. This confession embarrassed me.
to inspect
/ˌɪnˈspɛkt/
verbto carefully look at something or someone, particularly to see if everything is OK
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1. - Inspect those alcoves.
2. The transient orcas also inspect a rocky plateau for prey. ?
3. Inspect fruit carefully.
4. Inspect all clothing, appliances, and furniture thoroughly.
5. Inspect the fittings and plumbing connections.
corrupt
/kɝˈəpt/
adjectiveusing one's power to do illegal things in order to get an advantage or receive money
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1. Certainly corrupting my belly.
2. The state is corrupt.
3. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
4. These people are corrupt.
5. Society corrupts.
execution
/ˌɛksəkˈjuʃən/
nounthe act of punishing a criminal by death
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1. Some faithful friends of Stalin even admitted to having disloyal thoughts if not deeds, which was adequate sin to justify execution.
2. The execution of that is much tougher.
3. Execution is worship.
4. Execution is worship.
5. Execution kills instantly, life-imprisonment kills by degrees.
to raid
/ˈɹeɪd/
verb(of police) to unexpectedly visit a person or place to arrest suspects or find illegal goods
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1. In April of 2018, the police raided the home of Joseph James DeAngelo.
2. But the police raided the bars all the time.
3. What are raids?
4. He raided the studio.
5. In 1966, federal agents from the Food and Drug Administration raided a small national food store in Boston, Erewhon.
fingerprint
/ˈfɪŋɡɝˌpɹɪnt/
nouna mark made by the unique pattern of lines on the tip of a person's finger, can be used to find out who has committed a crime
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1. And the servant's fingerprints matched fingerprints from the crime site.
2. Atmospheres have fingerprints.
3. Fingerprints are the skin patterns on the ends of your fingers and thumbs.
4. Even my practice ammo doesn't get fingerprints.
5. What role do fingerprints play in our lives?
forensic
/ˌfɔˈɹɛnsɪk/, /fɝˈɛnsɪk/
adjectiverelated to the use of scientific techniques when trying to know more about a crime
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1. Maybe forensics will have better luck.
2. It reveals forensics of map design.
3. Forensics is my second team.
4. Forensic psychiatry focuses on the overlap between psych and the law.
5. Forensic evidence pieced together the unfortunate story.
probation
/pɹoʊˈbeɪʃən/
noun(law) a specific supervised period of time outside prison granted to a criminal, given they do not break a law during this period
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1. - You mean probation?
2. I'm on probation.
3. This man served his time on probation.
4. For 19 counts of abuse of a corpse he was given four years’ probation.
5. He's on probation.
record
/ˈɹɛkɝd/, /ɹəˈkɔɹd/, /ɹɪˈkɔɹd/
nounofficial information that indicates a person has committed a crime
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1. Spain experienced the country's single biggest job loss on record.
2. But observations from the last year recorded hundreds of tremors.
3. Record new business.
4. Record your sets.
5. Recorded the voiceover.
goon
/ˈɡun/
nouna criminal hired to harm or threaten people
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1. Goons: Use the gun or something?!
2. Having trouble breaching rooms and clearing goons?
3. Victor blows away the goons with a fire gun that we took off the feds.
4. They called me Goon.
5. Give Jaime a bath, you goon.
death squad
/dˈɛθ skwˈɑːd/
nouna group of armed people who illegally kill supporters of an opposing political party or criminals
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1. He's got the Death Squad commander in its box.
2. It’s now known that he and others formed what was later called a Death Squad.
henchman
/ˈhɛntʃmən/
nounsomeone who faithfully supports a person in power and is willing to do things for them that are illegal or violent
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1. STEVE JACKSON: Move me, henchman.
2. -on top of all that, at this very moment, Trump's henchmen are still in the process of committing crimes for him.
3. The Black Order are perfectly serviceable henchmen for Infinity War.
4. Next to eat are Corum's henchmen.
5. - I'll get a henchman.
hired gun
/hˈaɪɚd ɡˈʌn/
nounan individual who is paid to do something violent or immoral, particularly killing someone or protecting a powerful person
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gun for hire
/ɡˈʌn fɔːɹ hˈaɪɚ/
nounan individual who does immoral or violent things for money
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gunslinger
/ˈɡənˌsɫɪŋɝ/
nouna person who is skilled at shooting a gun and is hired to kill someone, used particularly in the past in the American Wild West
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1. We want the limit, gunslinger speed.
2. Come on, Gunslinger.
3. You're a rich Gunslinger.
4. Were there gunslingers in the old west?
5. [Narrator] And notorious gunslingers like Doc Holiday really did exist.
breaking and entering
/bɹˈeɪkɪŋ ænd ˈɛntɚɹɪŋ/
phrasethe crime of using force to illegally enter a building
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to finger
/ˈfɪŋɡɝ/
verbto identify or point out someone as the person responsible for committing a crime or wrongdoing, often to law enforcement or other authorities
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1. Fingers crossed.
2. Fingers crossed!
3. Finger a nugget o' grouse!
4. - Fingers crossed.
5. Fingers crossed.