FCE Vocabulary - Crime
Index
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sentenced
commit
red-handed
guilty
burglars
robbed
witnesses
bribes
broken
bars
1)
Someone must have seen the accident but the police can find no
so far.
2)
George was
to life imprisonment.
3)
The supermarket had already been
into five times that year.
4)
The jury found Jane
of shoplifting.
5)
She spent twenty years behind
after being convicted for murder.
6)
Peter was
of his wallet, laptop, and smartphone.
7)
My uncle was sent to prison for a crime that he didn't
.
8)
The police caught him
stealing money from the woman's purse.
9)
Most
don't bother picking locks. They know they'll be able to gain entry by cruder methods.
10)
It is alleged that she has taken
while in the office.
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Answers
1)
witness (n)
a person who gives evidence in a law court
2)
sentence sb to sth (v)
to condemn sb to a particular punishment
3)
break + into (v)
to force a way into a house
etc
.
4)
guilty of sth (adj)
having committed a crime
5)
behind bars
in prison
6)
rob sb of sth (v)
to steal from a person
7)
commit (v)
to do something illegal
8)
catch sb red-handed
to catch sb while they are doing sth wrong
9)
burglar (n)
a person who breaks into a house
etc
. to steal
10)
bribe (n)
a gift offered to sb to persuade them to do sth
