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CEFR B1 Vocabulary - Lesson 36

Here you will learn some English words about law and politics, such as "border", "council", "ballot", etc. prepared for B1 learners.

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CEFR B1 Vocabulary
politics
[noun]
a set of ideas and activities involved in governing a country, state, or city
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candidate
[noun]
someone who is competing in an election or for a job position
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border
[noun]
a line that separates two countries, provinces, or states from each other; the area close to this line
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congress
[noun]
(in some countries) the group of people who have been elected to make laws, which in the US it consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate
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council
[noun]
a group of elected people who govern a city, town, etc.
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county
[noun]
(in the US) one of the areas into which a state is divided and that has a local government of its own
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court
[noun]
the place in which legal trials are held
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diplomacy
[noun]
the job, skill, or act of managing the relationships between different countries
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election
[noun]
the process in which people choose a person or group of people for a position, particularly a political one, by voting for them
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to elect
[verb]
to choose a person for a specific job, particularly a political one, by voting
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embassy
[noun]
a group of people who officially represent their government in another country
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government
[noun]
the group of politicians in control of a country or state
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local government
[noun]
the government of a city or town and not of a country
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governor
[noun]
someone who is in charge of a region or town
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law
[noun]
a country's rules that all of its citizens are required to obey
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mayor
[noun]
someone who is elected to be the head of a town or city
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parliament
[noun]
the group of elected politicians whose responsibility is changing or making laws or discussing political matters
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party
[noun]
an official political group with shared beliefs and aims who try to be a part of or form a government
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political
[adjective]
related to a country's government, politics, or public affairs
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president
[noun]
the leader of a country that has no king or queen
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public
[noun]
a society's ordinary people
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punishment
[noun]
the act of making someone suffer because they have done something illegal or wrong; a method of doing this
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right
[noun]
something that a person is legally, officially, or morally allowed to do or have
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senate
[noun]
one of the two groups of politicians, the other being the House of Representatives, who have been elected to make laws in some countries, such as France and the US
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to arrest
[verb]
(of law enforcement agencies) to take a person away because they believe that they have done something illegal
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to ban
[verb]
to officially forbid or restrict a particular action, item, or practice
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state
[noun]
one of the organized political areas that together form a federal country, like those of Germany or the US
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to commit
[verb]
to do something that is illegal or wrong
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to escape
[verb]
to get away from captivity
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to investigate
[verb]
to try to find the truth about a crime, accident, etc. by carefully examining its facts
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to murder
[verb]
to unlawfully and intentionally kill another human being
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to punish
[verb]
to cause someone to suffer for breaking the law or having done something they should not have
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to rule
[verb]
to control and be in charge of a country
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thief
[noun]
someone who steals something from a person or place without using violence or threats
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to vote
[verb]
to show which candidate one wants to win in an election or which plan one supports, by marking a piece of paper, raising one's hand, etc.
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conference
[noun]
an official meeting where a group of people discuss a certain matter, which often continues for days
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statement
[noun]
an official announcement regarding something specific
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flag
[noun]
a piece of cloth with a mark or pattern that stands for a country, organization, etc.
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blood money
[noun]
an amount of money given by law to the close relatives of a murdered victim
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to free
[verb]
to release someone from captivity or arrest
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death penalty
[noun]
the punishment by killing a criminal, which is officially ordered by a law court
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