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VOCABULARY

VOCABULARY. Abeer. Legal legislation major. Legal ( adj,n ). PRONUNCIATION: lee -GUL DEFINITION: allowable, permissible 1- if something is legal, you are allowed to do it or have to do it by law 2- concerned with or relating to the law

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VOCABULARY

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  1. VOCABULARY Abeer

  2. Legal • legislation • major

  3. Legal (adj,n) • PRONUNCIATION: lee -GUL • DEFINITION: allowable, permissible 1- if something is legal, you are allowed to do it or have to do it by law 2- concerned with or relating to the law • SYNONYM(S): allowed, authorized, chartered, constitutional, lawful, legalized. • ANTONYM(S) : illegal, illicit, unlawful, wrong

  4. WORD FAMILY WORDS: Legally ( adverb) Illegal( adverb) postlegal (adject) prelegal (adject) pseudolegal (adject) quasilegal (adject)

  5. SENTENCES: • What the company has done is perfectly legal. • It depend on the Scottish legal system. • She threatened to take a legalaction against the hospital.

  6. Legislation(n) • PRONUNCIATION: leg·is·LA·tion • DEFINITION: 1. The act of making or enacting laws. 2. A law or a body of laws enacted. • SYNONYM(S): act, regulation, constitution, lawmaking, prescription, ruling, statute

  7. WORD FAMILY WORDS: legislature (n) legislator (n) legislate (v) • SENTENCE(S): *The legislation needs to be tightened to protect intellectual property without hindering online speech and innovation. *Such changes can be made only through a multiyear regulatory process-or through legislation.

  8. Major (adj,n) • PRONUNCIATION: ma-JOR • DEFINITION: bigger, principal, superior (n) one of superior rank (military  an officer immediately junior to a lieutenant colonel) (adj) greater in size • SYNONYM(S): Big, considerable, dominant, large, greater, sizable, main. • ANTONYM(S) : minor, lesser, little, small

  9. WORD FAMILY WORDS: Majority (adj) Majorship (n) Supermajority • SENTENCE(S): *In the United States and Canada, an academic majoris the academic discipline to which a student formally commits. * Reading was my major hoppy in the past.

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