Vocabulary-2

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1.       Upheld -              confirm or support (something which has been questioned)
Synonyms-                  confirm, endorse, sustain, validate, ratify,
 
2.       Assassination-    Assassination is the killing of a prominent person, either for political or religious reasons or for payment.
Synonyms-                 bloodshed, carnage, slaughter, homicide

3.       Legitimate-        conforming to the law or to rules.
Synonyms-                 legal, lawful, licit, statutory, constitutional,

4.       Barricaded-       to block off or stop up with a barricade
Synonyms-                 blockade, obstruct, fortify, strengthen

5.       Barred-              closed or secured with a long rigid piece of wood, or metal
Synonyms-               prohibit, debar, preclude, forbid, ban,

6.       Speculation-      the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence.
Synonyms-                 conjecture, theorizing, hypothesizing, supposition, guesswork.

7.       Deceased-          the recently dead person.
Synonyms-                death, dying, demise, end, passing,

8.       Assert-               state a fact or belief confidently and forcefully.
Synonyms-                declare, contend, argue, state, claim, propound, posit, postulate.

9.       Mandate-            an official order or commission to do something.
Synonyms-                instruction, directive,  decree,  injunction, edict,
 
10.   Probe-                 a thorough investigation into a crime or other matter
Synonyms-                investigation, inquiry, examination, scrutiny,
 
11.   Hiatus-                 a pause or break in continuity in a sequence or activity.
Synonyms-                pause,  interruption,  interlude, gap, lacuna.

12.   Sham-                    a thing that is not what it is purported to be.
Synonyms-                   pretend, fake, act, fiction.

13.   Slammed-             criticize severely
Synonyms-               censure, denounce, condemn, disparage.

14.   Alleged-                 something said, without proof ; of illegal or  undesirable quality.
 Synonyms-               ostensible, apparent, putative, avowed.

15.   Resolve-            settle or find a solution to (a problem or contentious matter).
Synonyms-              solve, settle, rectify, correction, assimilate.        

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