Crimes and Punishment Vocabulary 1

Lying under oath means .......

• perjury

• venal

• abscond

• enormity

Conspiring to rig a local election means .....

• malfeasance

• purloin

• enormity

• collusion

A politician using public funds to buy gifts for his or her family is called .......

• peccadillo

• recidivism

• malfeasance

• abscond

.................means telling a white lie

• perjury

• peccadillo

• abscond

• bilk

..............means committing armed robbery after serving time for auto theft.

• recidivism

• perjury

• abscond

• venal

a defendant trying to leave the state before his or her case goes to trial: attempting to ________

• venal

• bilk

• abscond

• collusion

Frequently accepting bribes while in office: a ________ public official

• bilk

• perjury

• picadillo

• venal

....................means taking something that belongs to someone else.

• purloin

• bilk

• collusion

• venal

Swindling a rich divorcee: ________(ing) an innocent woman

• abscond

• venal

• bilk

• purloin

..........................means executing the entire population of a village during a civil war.

• enormity

• perjury

• venal

• collusion