- accuse: to say that someone did something wrong
- advocate: to speak out in favor of something
- allegedly: according to what other people say
- apprehend: to capture
- ascertain: to make sure
- assail: to attack or criticize forcefully
- authority: the power to make decisions, to tell others what to do
- bitterly: strongly and with a lot of bad feelings
- civil: involving a dispute between two citiezens
- coalition: a group of several different groups
- condemn: to speak against smth in very strong term
- contest: to challenge
- contrary: opposite
- convict: to decide that someone is guilty of a crime
- hypothesize: make a guess
- impair: to make smth less effective
- implicate: to suggest that someone was involved in crime
- inaugurate: to bring into public; to start formally
- inference: a conclusion drawn from evidence
- inquiry: investigation
- intrusively: in a way that brings an unwanted person into someone else's affairs
- objectivle: based on unbiased standards, not a personal opinion
- offense: specific act that breaks the law
- peer: person who is ones social equal
- policy: approved way for approaching a certain kind of situation
- poll: to find out a small groups opinion, so you can guess what a much larger group thinks
- seize: to take smth against its owner'swill
- surveillance: a process of watching smth for long time, becuase person is suspected
- suspicious: believing that smth is wrong
- tolerate: to avoid getting upset about smth
- verdict: a judgment in court case