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VOCABULARY

This guide explores essential legal vocabulary, focusing on three key terms: "legal," "legislation," and "major." "Legal" refers to what is permissible by law, while "legislation" denotes the act of creating laws or the laws themselves. "Major" signifies importance or a larger scale in both legal and everyday contexts. This resource provides definitions, synonyms, antonyms, related words, and example sentences to help you grasp these concepts effectively. Enhance your legal vocabulary with this comprehensive overview.

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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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