COURT INTERPRETER UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMS ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Beating around the bush - ✔✔Avoiding the main topic. Not speaking directly about
the issue.
✔✔This neck of the woods - ✔✔in this area, in this place
✔✔railing against - ✔✔complaining
✔✔red tape - ✔✔bureaucratic rules and procedures that must be followed to get
something done
✔✔elbow grease - ✔✔hard work and effort
✔✔play hardball with (someone) - ✔✔aggressively
✔✔bank on it - ✔✔Be sure of it
✔✔Beating a dead horse - ✔✔Wasting ur time
✔✔has a handle - ✔✔Has things under her control
,✔✔knee-slapper - ✔✔Very funny
✔✔pipeline - ✔✔In queue
✔✔Monkey on your back - ✔✔a serious problem that will not go away
✔✔By the skin of her teeth - ✔✔By a narrow margin
✔✔under fire - ✔✔Being criticized
✔✔had the Midas touch - ✔✔to be always successful. Made $ easily
✔✔greener pastures - ✔✔in a better situation
✔✔The final disposition of a case is called - ✔✔Judgment
✔✔Misdemeanor - ✔✔minor crime
✔✔Criminal offenses considered last serious than felonies - ✔✔Misdemeanors
✔✔magistrate - ✔✔judge
✔✔The first questioning of witnesses by the party on whose they have are called is the -
✔✔Direct exam
✔✔Sidebar - ✔✔An article that accompanies and appears beside the main news story
✔✔execute - ✔✔put into effect; carry out
✔✔pretrial conference - ✔✔A conference, scheduled before the trial begins, between
the judge and the attorneys litigating the suit. The parties may settle the dispute, clarify
the issues, schedule discovery, and so on during the conference.
✔✔hostile witness - ✔✔Witness who manifests so much hostility or prejudice under
examination in chief that the party who has called witness is allowed to cross-examine
him/her; i.e., to treat witness as though he/she had been called by the opposite party.
✔✔Putting a person on trial more than once for the same crime is referred to -
✔✔Double Jeopardy
✔✔declaration - ✔✔a formal or explicit statement or announcement.
, ✔✔subpoena - ✔✔notice ordering someone to appear in court
✔✔Desposition - ✔✔the testimony of a witness made under oath but not in open court
✔✔writ - ✔✔court order
✔✔scaffold - ✔✔Platform
✔✔Hubris - ✔✔excessive pride or self-confidence
✔✔excessive - ✔✔too much
Opposite is restricted
✔✔robust - ✔✔strong and healthy
✔✔stingy - ✔✔not generous
✔✔Make a pit stop - ✔✔go to the bathroom
✔✔washed up - ✔✔Completely over
✔✔a case without prejudice - ✔✔"You can try again later." The judge is closing the case
for now, but you're allowed to fix any problems and bring it back to court in the future.
✔✔The defendant is required to give up certain constitutional rights - ✔✔Before
entering a plea of guilty
✔✔concurrent sentence - ✔✔sentences served at the same time
2 years for burglary, two years for robbery, two years in jail
✔✔correct sequence of events - ✔✔Jury Sworn, Jury Charged, Jury Deliberation, Jury
Verdict.
✔✔deliberation - ✔✔careful consideration
✔✔verdict - ✔✔the decision a jury makes in a trial; the decision said by the jury
✔✔affidavit - ✔✔written statement made under oath
✔✔when you're interpreting at the witness stand - ✔✔Keep your dictionary and notepad
at hand
EXAMS ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Beating around the bush - ✔✔Avoiding the main topic. Not speaking directly about
the issue.
✔✔This neck of the woods - ✔✔in this area, in this place
✔✔railing against - ✔✔complaining
✔✔red tape - ✔✔bureaucratic rules and procedures that must be followed to get
something done
✔✔elbow grease - ✔✔hard work and effort
✔✔play hardball with (someone) - ✔✔aggressively
✔✔bank on it - ✔✔Be sure of it
✔✔Beating a dead horse - ✔✔Wasting ur time
✔✔has a handle - ✔✔Has things under her control
,✔✔knee-slapper - ✔✔Very funny
✔✔pipeline - ✔✔In queue
✔✔Monkey on your back - ✔✔a serious problem that will not go away
✔✔By the skin of her teeth - ✔✔By a narrow margin
✔✔under fire - ✔✔Being criticized
✔✔had the Midas touch - ✔✔to be always successful. Made $ easily
✔✔greener pastures - ✔✔in a better situation
✔✔The final disposition of a case is called - ✔✔Judgment
✔✔Misdemeanor - ✔✔minor crime
✔✔Criminal offenses considered last serious than felonies - ✔✔Misdemeanors
✔✔magistrate - ✔✔judge
✔✔The first questioning of witnesses by the party on whose they have are called is the -
✔✔Direct exam
✔✔Sidebar - ✔✔An article that accompanies and appears beside the main news story
✔✔execute - ✔✔put into effect; carry out
✔✔pretrial conference - ✔✔A conference, scheduled before the trial begins, between
the judge and the attorneys litigating the suit. The parties may settle the dispute, clarify
the issues, schedule discovery, and so on during the conference.
✔✔hostile witness - ✔✔Witness who manifests so much hostility or prejudice under
examination in chief that the party who has called witness is allowed to cross-examine
him/her; i.e., to treat witness as though he/she had been called by the opposite party.
✔✔Putting a person on trial more than once for the same crime is referred to -
✔✔Double Jeopardy
✔✔declaration - ✔✔a formal or explicit statement or announcement.
, ✔✔subpoena - ✔✔notice ordering someone to appear in court
✔✔Desposition - ✔✔the testimony of a witness made under oath but not in open court
✔✔writ - ✔✔court order
✔✔scaffold - ✔✔Platform
✔✔Hubris - ✔✔excessive pride or self-confidence
✔✔excessive - ✔✔too much
Opposite is restricted
✔✔robust - ✔✔strong and healthy
✔✔stingy - ✔✔not generous
✔✔Make a pit stop - ✔✔go to the bathroom
✔✔washed up - ✔✔Completely over
✔✔a case without prejudice - ✔✔"You can try again later." The judge is closing the case
for now, but you're allowed to fix any problems and bring it back to court in the future.
✔✔The defendant is required to give up certain constitutional rights - ✔✔Before
entering a plea of guilty
✔✔concurrent sentence - ✔✔sentences served at the same time
2 years for burglary, two years for robbery, two years in jail
✔✔correct sequence of events - ✔✔Jury Sworn, Jury Charged, Jury Deliberation, Jury
Verdict.
✔✔deliberation - ✔✔careful consideration
✔✔verdict - ✔✔the decision a jury makes in a trial; the decision said by the jury
✔✔affidavit - ✔✔written statement made under oath
✔✔when you're interpreting at the witness stand - ✔✔Keep your dictionary and notepad
at hand
