ESL Vocabulary Quiz: legal systems, drug dealing, torture

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Vocabulary Quiz for ‘Abdul Shanwaz’

INSTRUCTIONS: Put the correct number in the box beside each word.

• addict

• appeal

• arrest

• beat

• blind

• dealer

• disagree

• hide

• ill

• jail

• lenient

• pretend

• probation

• punishment

• severe

• shake

• stroller

• suffer

• torture

• trial

(1)

feel pain, hunger, unhappiness

(2)

free, as long as you don’t behave badly

(3)

hurt someone out of cruelty or to get information

(4)

put something where it cannot be seen

(5)

unable to see because eyes don’t work

(6)

move quickly and comfortably a short distance back and forth

(7)

make other people believe you are something you are not

(8)

someone who sells things

(9)

believe that someone is wrong about something

(10)

treat someone kindly even though they have done wrong

(11)

not healthy

(12)

for pushing children ahead of you on wheels while walking

(13)

when the police take something away

(14)

person who is unable to stop doing something they enjoy

(15)

hit someone repeatedly to hurt them

(16)

place where a judge decides if someone did wrong

(17)

where criminals are locked up

(18)

ask a judge or court to think again about some earlier decision

(19)

harming someone because they have done wrong

(20)

where your bags are examined when you are travelling to another country