cross-examination
B1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
The questioning of an opposing party's witness at the hearing to test and challenge that witness's evidence.
Counsel reserved most of the hearing day for cross-examination of the claimant's key witness.
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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