hostile witness
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
A witness who, once called, shows antagonism to the party calling them and may then be cross-examined by that party.
The moment she recanted on the stand, I applied to treat her as a hostile 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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