| allege | to declare or asser |
| arraign | to call before a court, summon to trial |
| felony | major crime |
| bail | bond guaranteeing he will return for trial |
| docket | calendar of cases to be tried |
| bequeath | to give or bestow in one's will |
| intestate | without a will |
| probate | testing by teh court |
| disburse | to pay out, expend (money) |
| reimburse | pay someone back |
| bourse | in Paris, stock exchange |
| bursar | in college, treasurer |
| encroach | to intrude, trespass |
| invade | to move in like a hostile army, disregarding the rights and wishes of the victim |
| infringe | to violate someone's rights or privileges, especially in a patent |
| presume | to take it upon oneself to say or do something not ordinarily permissible |
| arrogate | to seize boldly a privilege or right |
| exonerate | to clear from blame or guilt |
| absolve | to release a person of guily by requiring penance or granting forgiveness |
| acquit | to clear a person after his innocence is proved |
| exculpate | to free a person from blame either because he was no guilty or because he was justified in what he did |
| incriminate | to involve or implicate in a crime |
| discrimination | skill or prejudice in observing differences |
| recrimination | counteraccusation |
| actuary | an insurance analyst and statistician |
| actuate | to put into operation, i.e., a pump |
| actualize | carry it out, i.e., a plan |
| activate | begin to use it officially, i.e., a squadron or base |
| counteract | to act against, i.e., a pest |
| alibi | the claim of having been elsewhere when an offense was committed, or an excuse |
| debenture | interest-bearing bond, voucher of indebtedness |
| debit | a sum that one owes |
| deficit | the amount by which a sum of money falls short of what is expected, needed, or owed |
| increment | an increase (usually at specific intervals) |
| libel | written or printed defamation |
| defamation | false and malicious attacks on someons' character or reputation |
| slander | spoken defamation, false report, or damaging statements |
| calumny | defamation, the making of false or malicious misrepresentations, either written, spoken, or otherwise expressed |
| litigation | a lawsuit, or legal disputation |
| litigious | liking to start or prolong a lawsuit whenever a litigiable problem arises |
| option | a choice or a right of choice |
| solvency | ability to meet all financial obligations |
| liabilities | dangers one must face, especially sums on money that one must or may have to pay |
| fiscal | financial |
| bereavement | loss or desolation, especially by death |
| condolence | formal expression of sympathy |
| compassion | pity or sympathy, lwith an urge to help in some way |
| commiseration | strong sympathy expressed in more personal, more intimate, and less formal or distant manner than condolence |
| dirge | a funeral hymn, a song or poem of grief |
| requiem | musical composition or a dirge for the repose fo teh dead |
| requiem mass | a religious service for the dead |
| obituary | death notice, usually in a newspaper, with a short biography |
| necrology | a list of persons who have died |
| epitaph | a tombstone description |
| mausoleum | a large tomb built above ground |
| sepulcher | a tomb somewhat less imposing than a mausoleum |
| cenotaph | monument honoring a person buried elsewhere |
| sarcophagus | stone coffin, especially one with a craving or inscription on it |
| interment | burial |
| cremation | reducing a body to ashes |
| disinter | to remove a body from the ground after burial, also exhume |