arraignment
B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
The first hearing at which an accused is formally read the charges and enters a plea.
He stayed silent at arraignment, so the court entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf.
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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