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Law Vocabs - "A" List
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ABJURE - to renounce, repudiate or retract, esp. with solemnity, under oath; to recant.
AB INITIO - from the beginning
ABNEGATE - to refuse or deny oneself (rights, claims, conveniences, etc.); reject; give up
ADDLEBRAINED - foolish; silly; having or revealing a muddled or confused mind; stupid
AD HOMINEM - appealing to one's prejudices, emotions or special interest rather than to intellect or reason, as by attacking one's opponent rather than debating the issue.
ADVENTITIOUS - added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; out of the proper place or usual place.
A FORTIORI - with stronger reason
AGRESTIC - rural; crude; uncouth.
AIDE-MEMOIRE - a memorandum of a discussion; proposed agreement
ALEATORY - depending or pertaining to chance, luck or contingency; unpredictable.
ALEXIPHARMIC -an antidote
AMICUS CURIAE - a friend of the court; a person appointed by the court as an impartial adviser.
AMORPHOUS - without definite form; shapeless, of no definite or particular type, kind or character; unorganized; vague.
ANACHRONISM - the representation of something as existing or occurring at other than its proper time, esp. earlier; anything that is or seems to be out of its proper time in history.
ANCHORITE -a person who lives alone and apart from society for religious meditation; hermit; recluse
ANDROGYNOUS - exhibiting both male and female characteristics, esp. sexual ones; hermaproditic.
ANIMADVERT - to observe, censure; to comment or act upon something with disapproval; criticize adversely.
ANTEBELLUM - before the war; (in the U.S.) before or existing before the American Civil War
ANTIPODE - anything diametrically opposed; exact opposite.
ANTITHESIS - opposition; contrast; the direct opposite.
APHORISM - a terse, pithy expression embodying a wise or clever observation or a general truth; maxim; adage.
APOCALYPTIC - prophesying total destruction or great disasters; affording a revelation or prophesy; pertaining to the Apocalypse.
APOCRYPHAL - of doubtful sanction, authorship or authority; uncanonical; false; spurious; counterfeit.
APOGEE - the farthest or highest point.
A POSTERIORI - from the effect to the cause; reasoning sequence opposed to a priori
A PRIORI - reasoning sequence from cause to effect.
ARGUMENTUM AD ADSURDUM - an argument proving the absurdity of an opponent's argument.
ARGUMENTUM AD HOMINEM - an argument to the individual man, i.e., to his interests and prejudices.
ARMAGEDDON - any great decisive battle.
ATHWART - across; against; opposed
ATRABILIOUS - sad; melancholy; morose; gloomy; irritable; bad-tempered
AUTARKY - national economic self-sufficiency; a national policy of economic independence, esp. of getting along without imports.
AUTODIDACT - a person who is self-taught.
AVANT GARDE - the advance group, the leaders, or the radical in any field, esp. in the visual, literary or musical arts, whose works are characterized by unorthodox and experimental methods; vanguard
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