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Govendra S. Shekhawat



y A person who believes in fate/ A person who believes that all events are

pre-determinedy Fatalist

y A person who is above hundred years

y Centenarian

y A book published after the death of its author

y Posthumous

y A book written by an unknown author

y A nonymous



y A citizen of the worldy Cosmopolite

y A contagious disease which spreads over a huge areay Epidemic

y A drug or other substance that induces sleepy Soporific

y A flesh eating animaly

Carnivorous

y A grass eating animaly Herbivorous



y A game in which neither party wins/ A game or battle in which neither

party winsy Draw/Drawn/ Tie

y A Government by a king or queeny Monarchy

y A Government by oney A utocracy

y A Government by the fewy Oligarchy



y A Government by the Noblesy A

ristocracy

y A Government by the officialsy Bureaucracy

y A Government by the people

y Democracy

y A Government by the richy Plutocracy



y A great lover of booksy

Bibliophile

y A handwriting that cannot be ready Illegible

y A land animal that breeds in watery A

mphibian

y A letter, poem etc. whose author is unknowny A nonymous

y A life history written by oneself y A utobiography

y A life history written by somebody elsey Biography



y A list of booksy

Catalogue

y A list of names, books etc.y Catalogue

y A loss of damage that cannot be compensatedy Irreparable

y A man devoid of kind feeling and sympathy y Callous

yA man who has too much enthusiasm for his own religion

y Fanatic



y A man who is easily irritatedy

Irritable

y A medicine that kills germsy Germicide

y A medicine that prevents decomposing

y A ntiseptic

y A medicine to counteract the effect of another mediciney A ntidote

y A

member of the middle classy Bourgeois



y A method that cannot be imitatedy

Inimitable

y A pardonable offensey Venial

y A person appointed by parties to settle the disputes between them

y A rbitrator

y A person difficult to pleasey Fastidious

y A person liable to be called to account for his actiony A nswerable/ A ccountable



y A person supported by another and giving him/her nothing in returny

Parasite

y A person who always thinks of himself; somebody who is selfish or self-centered

y Egotist

yA person who attacks first

y A ggressor

y A person who believes easily whatever he is toldy Credulous



y A person who cannot read or writey Illiterate

y A person who does not believe in the institution of marriagey Misogamist

y A person who hates womeny

Misogynist

y To make impure by mixing dirty or poisonous mattery Contaminate

y A mad persony Lunatic



y A Body of voters

y Constituency

y A person who files a plaint in the court

y Plaintiff

y A person who files a complaint in the court

y Complainant

y A person who files an appeal

y A ppellant

y A person who files a petition/writ

y Petitioner



y A n offence for which a police officer may arrest without warrant

y Cognizableoffence

y A n offence for which a police officer has no authority to arrest without warrant

y Non-cognizable offence

y A person who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding,civil or criminal, a definitive (final) judgment

y Judge

y A person who abets the commission of an offence

y A bettor

y A Statement of a witness in Court.

y

Testimony



y A ny oral or written allegation to a Magistrate, for his taking action, thatsome person, whether known or unknown, has committed an offence

y Complaint

y A ny proceeding for the collection of evidence conducted by a policeofficer or by any person (other than a Magistrate) who is authorized by a Magistrate in this behalf

y Investigation

y A ny proceeding for the collection of evidence conducted by Magistrateor court

y Inquiry

y A ny act or omission made punishable by any law for the time being inforce

y Offence



y A person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person

y Legal Representative (LR)

y Belonging or pertaining to an individual from birth

y Congenital

y Belonging to the same period of time

y Contemporary

y Cut off the head

y Behead

y Destroy or get rid of something completely

y Eradicate

y Do away with wholly

yAbolish



y Free somebody from blame or guilty Exonerate

y General Pardon (specially of political offenders)y A mnesty

y Handwritten Booky

Manuscript

y Hard but liable to be easily brokeny Brittle

y Hater of mankindy Misanthropist

y Lover of mankindy Philanthropist



y Having opposing feelingsy A mbivalent

y Impossible to changey Incorrigible

y One which can be changedy

Corrigible

y Incapable of being dissolved in a liquidy Insoluble

y

Capable of being dissolved in a liquidy Soluble

y Incapable of being seized by attacky Impregnable



y Inscription on a tombstone

y

Epitaph

y The formal expression of an adjudication which conclusively determines the rights of the parties with regard to all or any of thematters in controversy in the suit.

y

Decree

y A ny person in whose favor a decree has been passed or an order capableof execution has been made

y Decree-holder

y A ny person against whom a decree has been passed or an order capableof execution has been made

y Judgement-debtor



y Medical examination of a dead body

y Postmortem

y Misappropriation of money

y Embezzlement

yA principle which prevents two courts of concurrent jurisdiction fromsimultaneously trying two suits in respectof the same matter in issue

y Res- sub judice

y Recovering from illness

y Convalescent



y Murder of father

y Patricide

yMurder of mother

y Matricide

y Murder of human being

y Homicide

y Murder of Brother/Sister

y Fratricide

y Murder of infant

y

Infanticide

y Murder of self

y Suicide

y Murder of king

y Regicide



y That which can be eaten

y Edible

y That which cannot be eateny Inedible

y That which cannot be altered or withdrawn or changed

y

Irrevocable

y That through which light can partly pass

y Translucent

y That through which light can passy Transparent



y That through which light cannot pass

y Opaque

y That which cannot be avoided

y Inevitable

y

That which cannot be believedy Incredible

y That which can be altered or withdrawn or changed

y Revocable

y That which cannot be conquered

y Invincible

y That which cannot be cured

y Incurable





y That which cannot be practiced

y Impracticable

y That which cannot be satisfied

y Insatiable

y That which cannot be seen

y Invisible

y That which is lawful

y Legal

y That which is against the law

y Illegal

y That which is prohibited by law/which is considered wrong or

unacceptable by prevailing social standardsy Illicit



y The area over which a court/ magistrate has an authority/control

y Jurisdiction

y The custom of having one wife/husband at a time

y Monogamy

y

The custom of having two wives/husbands at a timey Bigamy

y The custom of having more than one wife at a time

y Polygamy

y The custom of having more than one husband at a time

y Polyandry



y The period between childhood and adulthood

y A dolescence

y A person below the age of 18 years

y Minor/ Juvenile

y A

person above the 18 years of agey Major/ A dult

y A thing no longer in use

y Obsolete

y A person who is unable to pay his debts

y Insolvent





y One who looks on the bright side of things

y Optimist

y One who looks on the dark side of things

y Pessimist

y One who is indifferent to pleasure or pain

y Stoic

y One who dies without a Will

y Intestate

y To transfer one's authority to another

y Delegate



y A claim made by the opposite party in a suit a claim set up against theplaintiff is the same suit.

y CounterClaim

y A person who is the need of a joint Hindu family/Hindu undividedfamily.

y Karta

y A public officer who attestsdeeds or documents

y Notary

yA court organized for the argument of hypothetical cases

y Moot Court

y A government policy as not to interfere into matters of the People

y Laissez-faire



y Money received by a Muslim women as a consideration of marriage.

y Mahr/ Dower

y Say publicly that something is true

y Proclaim

y To be disloyal to someone who trusts youy Betray

y A place where prisoners are kept

y Jail / Gaol

y A person in charge of a jail and the prisoners in it

y Jailor



y A study of crimes or criminal behaviours

y Criminology

y A study of punishment and various kinds

y Penology

y A person who has been found guilty and is being punished

y Criminal

y A person who has been alleged to have committed an offence

y A ccused

y A person who is a guilty associate in crime/ A person who sustains sucha relation to the criminal act that he can be jointly indicted with theprincipal criminal.

y A ccomplice



y A n agreement which is enforceable by law

y Contract

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