Webster Essential Vocabulary

• Justicemust be meted out equally to all; anything else is unjust.


• Justicemust allow no favoritism of any kind.


• Justicerequires that the good be rewarded and the evil be punished.


• The courts of law in this country are charged with administering justice.
  •A justiceof the peace has the power to perform weddings.
  justify(JUHS ti fy) vt.1. to show to be right; vindicate; 2. to supply lawful
  grounds for; warrant —vi.1. to show sufficient reason for doing something; prove;

2. to align a row or rows of type on a page

• The town cited the fire hazard caused by old wiring to justifyupgrading its
  electrical code.


• Law officers must present a judge with some evidence of wrongdoing to
  justifygetting a wiretap warrant.


• Mr. Jones must justifyhis having cut down Mrs. Smith’s oak tree.


• The lines of type on most papers that you submit in school are justified on
  the left.
  [justified, -ing, justification n.]
  juxtaposition(JUHX tuh puh ZISH in) n.placed side by side or close together


• Words that modify other words should be placed in juxtapositionto the
  words they modify.


• When returning home after grocery shopping, it is preferable to place the
  trunk of the car in juxtapositionwith the door to your house nearest the
  kitchen.
  knowledge(NAH lij) n.1. information; awareness; understanding; 2. acquain-
  tance with the facts; 3. the complete body of information; enlightenment


• Do you have any knowledgeof the whereabouts of Waldo?


• It is important to have a thorough knowledgeof the facts before reaching
  any conclusion about them.


• An encyclopedia attempts to catalog all the knowledgeof mankind, and it
  does it alphabetically for convenience.

Quick Review #51.

Match the word from column 2 with the word from column 1 that means most
nearly the same thing.

J – K: SAT Words 147

1. jaded


2. journal


3. judge


4. judicial


5. justice


6. justify


7. juxtaposition


8. knowledge

a. nearby

b. fairness

c. vindicate

d. information

e. wearied

f. evaluate

g. unbiased

h. diary