Vocabulary

• filed a lawsuit: To officially submit a legal claim or complaint to a court.
• in court: Present or being discussed during a legal trial or hearing.
• break down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• have to: Must do
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• live on: To continue to exist or be remembered.
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• access: Way to enter a place, e.g. a station or stadium
• opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• consider: To think carefully about something
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• issue: To make something available to be used or sold
• court: To act in a way to shows you wish to marry someone
• appeal: Ability to attract interest, attention, or desire
• judge: Person who decides on the results of a contest
• decision: Choice made after thinking; final judgment
• independent: Making your own decisions; acting by yourself
• seek: To ask someone for help
• temporarily: For a limited amount of time
• temporary: Continuing for a limited time; not permanent
• couple: To join something to something else
• deny: To refuse to allow or accept something
• due: When something is required or expected
• district: Area of a country, city, or town
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• restore: To return a thing to its original condition
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• ongoing: Continuing to exist or be in progress
• ban: To make something illegal or not allowed
• assembly: Process of putting the parts of something together
• legal: Concerning the law; allowed by law
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• historic: (Of past event) having an effect on future; famous
• part: Division of a book
• lawsuit: A proceeding in law courts to get a legal decision
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• entry: Act of entering a room, building, party
• overnight: (Becoming famous, etc.) in a short amount of time
• trio: Three of something, e.g. musicians
• update: Addition of a current version of something
• feud: Bitter long quarrel, dispute or argument
• reinstate: To give someone back their previous job/position