Monster: Chapter 2 Vocabulary

Monster: Chapter 2 Vocab

Read the sentence in which the vocabulary word is said.
Match the word to its definition using context clues.
Review the definition after each question.

Multiple Choice

PETROCELLI

Are you going to let us do the affidavit on the crime scene?

• a written statement confirmed by oath or affirmation, for use as evidence in court.

• a sworn statement given verbally to a judge

• a written statement that is made frivolously and will not be admissible in court

• Mr. Donegan's older brother's first name

Multiple Choice

The talk is lawyer talk, with all the older guys talking about appeals and “mistakes” that the judge made.

• apply to a higher court for a reversal of the decision of a lower court.

• a serious or urgent request, typically one made to the public.

• support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea

• the qualities of an argument that make it truly persuasive.

Multiple Choice

Mr. Cruz, when you were apprehended, did you make a statement to the police about your part in this crime?

• anticipate (something) with uneasiness or fear.

• understand or perceive.

• arrest (someone) for a crime.

Multiple Choice

Right, but Petrocelli didn’t even bother with a lengthy cross-examination

• the act of the opposing party questioning the witness during a trial.

• note that leading questions are not allowed during direct examination

• a witness is initially questioned by the party who called them to the stand on direct examination.

• A second direct examination of a witness which may be performed during a trial after cross-examination is complete.

Multiple Choice

You haven’t established Mr. Cruz as a hostile witness

• an establishment which provides inexpensive food and lodging for a specific group of people, such as students, workers, or travelers.

• a witness who testifies for the party who has called them to testify

• a witness who testifies against the party who has called them to testify

• of or belonging to a military enemy.

Multiple Choice

Where’s she going? That’s not leading! You think that’s leading?

• most important

• guidance or leadership, especially in a spiritual context.

• the amount of blank space between lines of print.

• a question which suggests the answer

Multiple Choice

Overruled; it’s pertinent.

• to reject an attorney's objection to a question to a witness or admission of evidence.

• the trial judge allows the objection and excludes the evidence.

• they officially decide that the decision is incorrect or not valid.

Multiple Choice

It’s my understanding that the crime-scene technicians didn’t find any fingerprints they could establish as belonging to a perpetrator.

• A person who has never committed a crime

• a person that makes purple treats filled with laxatives for those they want to betray

• a person who committed a crime.

Multiple Choice

Isn’t it true that what you did in this case was to skip the investigation and run to your stoolies?

• stool pigeon, slang for a cop informant

• a person who is very loyal to their compatriots

• people who are unlikely to cooperate with police in the course of a criminal investigation

Multiple Choice

Sustained! Sustained! Let’s not get carried away. Rephrase the question.

• in trial practice, for a judge to disagree that an attorney's objection, such as to a question, is valid.

• in trial practice, for a judge to agree that an attorney's objection, such as to a question, is valid.

• to support something or keep it going

• defined as a block of time set aside in the course of a school day for students simply to read

Multiple Choice

Did Mr. Evans, or Bobo, make a proposition to you?

• a suggested program or plan of action, especially in a business context.

• get down on one knee and ask them to engage in holy matrimony for the remainder of their lives

• Updog

apply to a higher court for a reversal of the decision of a lower court.

Appeal:

a written statement confirmed by oath or affirmation, for use as evidence in court.

Affidavit:

Definition Review:

the act of the opposing party questioning the witness during a trial.

Cross-examination:

arrest (someone) for a crime.

Apprehended:

Definition Review:

a question which suggests the answer

Leading (a witness):

a witness who testifies against the party who has called them to testify

Hostile (witness):

Definition Review:

a person who committed a crime.

Perpetrator:

to reject an attorney's objection to a question to a witness or admission of evidence.

Overruled:

Definition Review:

in trial practice, for a judge to agree that an attorney's objection, such as to a question, is valid.

Sustained:

slang for stool-pigeon, AKA someone who cooperates with police in order to get a lighter sentence of their own

Stoolies:

Definition Review:

a suggested program or plan of action, especially in a business context.

Proposition

Definition Review: