alibi
B1CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
A defence asserting that the accused was elsewhere when the offence was committed and so could not have done it.
His alibi collapsed when CCTV placed him near the scene at the material time.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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