June, 25, 2020 Improving your conversation	
Conversation: making a small talk, find out meaning of the collocations from the left, use the explanation from the right	
collocations	explanation	
Be cited	•	To be summoned   to appear in court. The police could cite you for littering if you throw trash out of your car.	
Be indicted	•	to be charged with a crime. Richard Hayard was for espionage when he was caught selling U.S. documents to a foreign goverment.	
Ordinance	•	A law or regulation, usually passed by a local government. The city council passed an ordinance permitting the use of drugs by cancer patients.	
Beneficiary	•	A person who is or will be the recipient of  something of value from someone who was died. Harold and Gerry were the sole beneficiaries of their mother's modest estate.	
Rehabilitation	•	It was difficult to convince the governor that Sam had been successfully rehabilitated and was ready to leave jail and return to society.	
Clemency	•	A lesser penalty than what a court originally suggested. Thinking that Ralph Smith had suffered enough for the crime he committed, the judge granted him clemency and gave him a shorter prison sentence.
	
Amnesty	•	A pardon given to a large group of individuals. The government granted amnesty to all illegal immigrants.	
Procure 	•	To obtain, to buy , to take possession of something value. Professor Hodges wanted to procure some ancient artifacts before returning from his sabbatical in Africa.	
Engage in	•	To become involved in something, to do something. Teresa would never engage in illegal activities, even if she disagreed with a law.	
Induce	•	To influence someone to do something. Robbie's older brother induced him to steal money from their parents	
Conspire	•	To plan together in secret to do harm. Kathy and Jane conspired to make Mary look foolish.	
Solicit	•	To ask for something of value, usually money. Raymond got a job soliciting money for his political party.	
Sabotage	•	To destroy or cause to fail. The lab technician sabotaged the experiment by deliberately mixing up the samples.	
Espionage	•	Spying. Espionage was a common practice during the Cold War, and it still is today.	
Affiliated	•	To be in close connection. The local television stations are all affiliated with major networks.	
Persecute	•	To harass, to cause someone to suffer because of a belief. Many people have come to the United States because they were persecuted in their countries.	
Incite	•	To move to action, to cause. The Prime Minister's latest announcement incited the protesting crowd to become violent.	
Fraud	•	A false claim, trick; a liar or imposter. Sam Jameson created a false medical  license and began practicing medicine until he was exposed as a fraud.	
Waiver	•	A document that gives up a right or grants unusual permission to someone else. Juan signed a waiver giving his doctor the right to send his medical records to his insurance company.	
Custody	•	Having legal guardianship of a child or children, often part of a divorce settlement. When the Camerons divorced, Mrs. Cameron received custody of both children, and her husband won weekend visitation rights.	
Exercise 1. 
Place the correct vocabulary word in each space. Use each of the following words
once: solicit, beneficiary, indicted, procured, waiver, persecuted, incited, affiliation,
espionage, amnesty, conspired, rehabilitation, clemency, sabotage, cited, induce,
fraud, custody, ordinance, engaging.

1. When we found out that Dr. Wells hadn't gone to medical school, we knew he was a________.
2. Learning new skills is essential to the successful ________ from a life of crime.
3. For some people, working is much harder than ________ in crime.
4. The well-known International is an organization dedicated to encouraging
governments to free their political prisoners.
5. Bill Jackson felt because he had received a dishonorable discharge from the army and
few employers would hire him.
6. The soldiers sneaked in behind enemy lines to ______ the next shipment of weapons.
7. ______ by jealousy, Roberto accused his wife of having an affair.
8. If you let your dog walk around without a leash, you are violating a city.
9. I want to show you some new gems we've recently .
10. The senator was forced to resign when his with a racist organization was uncovered.
11. A sixteen-year-old cannot attend adult school without a from high school.
12. Tammy went to several companies to ______ money so that she could afford to travel
to the swimming competition.
13. Ralph was ______ for breaking and entering.
14. Mary was ______ for driving with her lights off.
15. The Rangels filed for ______ of their daughter's son.
16. A governor has the power to give to a condemned criminal, commuting a death
sentence to life in prison.
17. The boys ______ to scare all the girls in class on Halloween.
18. Wiretaps were placed on the ambassador's phone line in an act of.
19. Tony named his wife, Susan, as the _________ on his life insurance policy.
20. The labels of many poisonous products warn not to ______ vomiting in case of
accidental ingestion
	
Все материалы из  книги "Fluent English " by B. Raifsnider