Vocabulary

Law & Politics in the News flashcards

8 decks · 280 cards · built into Willys · free samples below

Written against: 150 words of courts, lawmaking, elections and world affairs; US usage; nonpartisan; not legal advice. Updated 2026-10-10.

What's in it

Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.

Learn · 4 decks · 200 cards

Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.

Set 1: Meanings The 75 most common of the 150 Law & Politics words, from bail and caucus to martial law and swing state: pronunciation, a plain definition and three news-style example sentences, the most common use first. 10 free · 75 cards in the app Set 1: In Context Fill the blank: 25 of the Set 1 words, each in a new sentence from court reports, legislatures, campaigns and diplomacy, whose clues point to exactly one word of the pack. 10 free · 25 cards in the app Set 2: Meanings The second 75 of the 150 Law & Politics words, from plaintiff and filibuster to habeas corpus and brinkmanship: pronunciation, a plain definition and three news-style example sentences, the most common use first. 10 free · 75 cards in the app Set 2: In Context Fill the blank: 25 of the Set 2 words, each in a new sentence from court reports, legislatures, campaigns and diplomacy, whose clues point to exactly one word of the pack. 10 free · 25 cards in the app

Drills · 2 decks · 50 cards

Short answers and cloze blanks for the facts you simply have to know cold.

Set 1: Quick Drills Meaning to term: 25 of the Set 1 words, from a fresh one-line definition back to the word itself, with one news-style example. 10 free · 25 cards in the app Set 2: Quick Drills Meaning to term: 25 of the Set 2 words, from a fresh one-line definition back to the word itself, with one news-style example. 10 free · 25 cards in the app

Practice · 2 decks · 30 questions

Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.

Set 1: Practice Fifteen sentence-completion questions on the Set 1 words, set in courtrooms, councils, campaigns and embassies: four choices, one blank, and why the tempting wrong answer fails. 6 free · 15 questions in the app Set 2: Practice Fifteen sentence-completion questions on the Set 2 words, set in courtrooms, councils, legislatures and world affairs: four choices, one blank, and why the tempting wrong answer fails. 6 free · 15 questions in the app

Study guide

Topics covered

The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.

Courts & Trials 43
Crime & Punishment 40
Lawmaking 39
Elections & Campaigns 36
Government & Power 42
Rights & Citizenship 36
World Affairs & Trade 44

A study plan

10 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
5 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.

Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.

How to get these decks

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Study. The exam comes in as its own collapsible folder, every card scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. Nothing you already have is changed.

Every deck is built into Willys

All 8 Law & Politics in the News decks (280 cards), with FSRS spaced repetition, quizzes and mock tests, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.

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In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.

About these cards

Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.

Checked against:

Senses, parts of speech and pronunciations checked against Merriam-Webster.com, the American Heritage Dictionary and the Oxford Learner's, Longman and Cambridge learner's dictionaries; all definitions, notes and example sentences are original.
Word selection is our own, from general-reader news, textbooks and frequency data (wordfreq, CC BY-SA 4.0); no publisher's list is reproduced.

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