Types of Crime
Crime Vocabulary
Verbs
Past Perfect
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100

Causing damage to another person's property. E.g. breaking a window, painting a graffiti, setting a trash container on fire...

VANDALISM

100

Castigar

PUNISH
100

Chillar

scream

100

By the time the guard woke up, the prisoner...

a) disappeared

b) had disappeared

b) had disappeared

100

I though the police __________ the thieves, but there was another robbery this morning.

a) captured

b) had captured

c) have captured

b) had captured

200

Driving faster than the speed limit

SPEEDING

200

Recopilar (e.g. pistas, pruebas...)

Put together

200

A synonym for "look for"

SEARCH
200

The jury ________ any details about the murder before the court case started.

a) didn't hear

b) hadn't heard

c) hadn't hear

b) hadn't heard

200

Complete the sentence:

fainted because...

I fainted because...

- I had not had breakfast

- I had run too much.

- it was too hot

300
Taking a person by force

Kidnapping

300

Escena del crimen

CRIME SCENE

300

Evitar

avoid

300

The victim _______ (be) ill because he ________ (not sleep) for weeks after the robbery.

The victim was ill because he had not slept after the robbery.

300
Demanding money by threatening to reveal a secret about them

BLACKMAIL

400

Steal something from a shop (no one notices)

Shoplifting

400
Enter a building illegally

BREAK INTO

400

A synonym for "escape"

RUN AWAY

400
Complete


The victim ______ (not call) the police after the thief ________ (run away).

The victim did not call  the police after the thief had run away.

400

Giving someone money or something else of value, often illegally, to persuade that person to do something you want

BRIBERY

500

Breaking into a house to steal something

BURGLARY

500

Culpable (adjective)

GUILTY

500
A synonym for "move away"

STEP BACK

500

By the time my father _________ (get) home, we _________ (already / have) dinner. 

By the time my father got home, we had already had dinner.

500

Translate:

No hice los deberes porque no había tenido tiempo. Pero preparé la cena porque mi hermano había comprado los ingredientes.

I didn't do my homework because I had not had time. But I prepared dinner because my brother had bought the ingredients.

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