tempt
call to the bar
sist
provocate
placitum
litigate
posture
let someone have it
cue
stoush
judicially
hold in contempt
fend and prove
instigate
contest
vindicatory
polemicize
recuse
summoner
law
move
appealable
curialistic
demandant
service
provocation
service of process
vivrti
serving
plea
moot
litigatory
bring
collateral review
North Carolina stratagem
look for trouble
argumentative
injunctive
conciliate
have it out
pick a fight
belabour
cital
strike
judiciary
adjudication
romance
chopse
argumentatious
jurative
make up
fratch
solicit
bearbait
get after
anticourtier
court of justice
skirmish
get it
challenge
umbrage
foment
speech
advocate
querela
pleonal
appellate
verdictive
let them have it
hear
avocationally
compear
fulminate
goad
controvert
pick
criminatory
tew
actionize
polemize
depose
ask for it
defend
lash out
appeal
give someone what-for
remit
work
digladiate
on the prod
offenseful
chastise
swear out
Twinkie defence
suborn
rark up
judicatory
caffeinate
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appealable
curialistic
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judiciary
argumentatious
jurative
anticourtier
pleonal
appellate
verdictive
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judicially
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summoner
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posture
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cue
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hold in contempt
fend and prove
instigate
contest
polemicize
recuse
law
move
moot
bring
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conciliate
have it out
pick a fight
belabour
strike
romance
chopse
make up
fratch
solicit
bearbait
get after
skirmish
get it
challenge
umbrage
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speech
advocate
let them have it
hear
compear
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depose
ask for it
defend
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work
digladiate
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rark up
caffeinate
verb
- To spark or provoke.
- To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
- To give someone a cue signal.
- To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
noun
- A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.
- A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.
- The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next actor to speak; any word or words which serve to remind an actor to speak or to do something; a catchword.
- The name of the Latin-script letter Q.
- An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
- A hint or intimation.
verb
- To object to (a judge, juror, or prosecutor) participating in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
- Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare oneself disqualified from trying a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
- To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).
- Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
verb
- To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
- To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.
- To enforce the law.
- To subject to legal restrictions.
noun
- Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
- A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
- The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
- A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
- The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
- The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
- Common law, as contrasted with equity.
- Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
- One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
- Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
- A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
- An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
- A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
- A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
- The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
- One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
- An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
- A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
verb
- To request an action from the court.
- To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
- To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
- To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
- To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
- To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
- To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
- To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
- To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
- To act; to take action; to begin to act
noun
- The event of changing one's residence.
- A change in strategy.
- A round, in which each player has a turn.
- The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
- The act of moving; a movement.
- An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
noun
- the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone
- work done by one person or group that benefits another
- an act of help or assistance; something (such as a tool, software or system) used to render said help or assistance
- the act of public worship following prescribed rules
- a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
- employment in or work for another
- a force that is a branch of the armed forces
- a means of serving
- tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table
- the act of mating by male animals
- (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him
- (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play
- periodic maintenance on a car or machine
- the performance of duties by a waiter or servant
verb
noun
- A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
- That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
- The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
- An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
- An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
- An excuse; an apology.
- That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
verb
verb
- To argue or plead in a supposed case.
- To say, utter, also insinuate.
- To take root and begin to grow.
- To make or declare irrelevant.
- To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.
- To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
- To discuss or debate.
adj
- Being an exercise of thought; academic.
- Having no practical consequence or relevance.
- Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
noun
- A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
- A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
- A mutual follower on a social media platform.
- Vagina.
- A moot court.
- A ring for gauging wooden pins.
- The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
- An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
- A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
- A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
- Talk.
verb
- To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
- To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
- To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
- To supply or contribute.
- To occasion or bring about.
- To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
- To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
intj
verb
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
noun
- The act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement.
- The process of identifying the type of material or device that set off an alarm and assessing the potential threat with corresponding implications for the need to take further action.
- A judgment or sentence.
- A process by which land is attached as security or in satisfaction of a debt.
- The decision upon the question of whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
verb
- To woo; to court.
- To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
- To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.
noun
- A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
- A tale of high adventure.
- An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
- A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
- A romanza, or sentimental ballad.
- An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
- A story or novel dealing with idealized love.
- An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
- A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
- A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
- Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
verb
- To make social or romantic advances to; to pay court to.
- To constitute the components of a whole.
- To draw near to, approach to.
- To apply cosmetics.
- To compensate (for).
- To make peace, to settle a dispute.
- To resolve or settle an argument, dispute, conflict, or fight (e.g., with someone).
- To invent, to imagine, to concoct
- To constitute, to compose.
- To prepare (someone) for a theatrical performance by means of costume, cosmetics, etc.
- To put together (a substance, material, garment, medicine, etc.) into a specific form; to assemble.
- To compensate for (a deficiency, defect, etc.); to supply (something missing).
- To invent or fabricate (a story, claim, etc.).
- To apply cosmetics or makeup to (a face, facial feature).
- To compile or draw up (a list, document, etc.).
verb
- To woo; to court.
- To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.
- To offer to perform sexual activity, especially when for a payment.
- To persuade or incite one to commit some act, especially illegal or sexual behavior.
- To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.
- If you want to lose your virginity, you should try to solicit some fine looking women.
- To make a petition.
noun
verb
- To get what's coming to one: to feel someone's wrath; to receive punishment; to receive a retaliation; to receive a beating.
- To have sex, especially referring to its possibility or eventuality.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, it.
- To understand something, to catch on.
intj
verb
- To dispute (something).
- To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
- To dare (someone).
- To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
- To be difficult or challenging for.
- To call something into question or dispute.
- To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
- To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
- To make a formal objection to a juror.
noun
- The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
- An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
- A bid to overcome something.
- The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
- An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.
- The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
- A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
- A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
- An attempt to take possession; a tackle.
- An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
- The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
- A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).
verb
noun
- The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
- A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
- Language used orally, rather than in writing.
- An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
- Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.
- The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
- A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
verb
- To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
- To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
- To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.
- To study under.
- To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
- To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
- To perceive sounds through the ear.
- To receive information about; to come to learn of.
- To be contacted by.
intj
verb
- provoke
- select carefully from a group
- look for and gather
- harass with constant criticism
- remove in small bits
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- pilfer or rob
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
noun
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the act of choosing or selecting
verb
- To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
- To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
- To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer.
- To take or swear an oath.
- To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.
- To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
verb
- To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
- To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
- To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
- To call a raise from the big blind.
- To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
- To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
verb
- To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
- To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
- To be attractive.
- To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
- Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
- To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
- To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
- Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
- To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
- Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
noun
- At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
- A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.
- An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
- The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
- A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
- A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
- An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
- A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
- A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
- A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
- A power to attract or interest.
noun
- A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.
- IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈɹiːmɪt/, /ɹɪˈmɪt/
- Audio (UK) (file)
- IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈɹimɪt/, /ɹiˈmɪt/, /ɹɪˈmɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɪt
- Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.
verb
- Rhymes: -ɪt
- Audio (UK) (file)
- To restore or replace.
- To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
- To postpone.
- IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹɪˈmɪt/
- To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
- To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
- To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
- To refrain from exacting or enforcing.
- IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹiˈmɪt/, /ɹɪˈmɪt/
verb
- provoke or excite
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- be employed
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform as expected when applied
- shape, form, or improve a material
- give a workout to
- proceed along a path
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- move in an agitated manner
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- cause to work
- prepare for crops
- behave in a certain way when handled
- have and exert influence or effect
- operate in or through
- cause to operate or function
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- make something, usually for a specific function
- move into or onto
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- cause to undergo fermentation
- go sour or spoil
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
noun
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- the occupation for which you are paid
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- a place where work is done
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
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