Adult ESL ELL Advanced Quiz
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INTERPRETIVE COMMUNICATION (LISTENING & READING)
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The legal brief argued that the defendant's actions constituted tortious interference, a concept the plaintiff's attorney explained to the jury as occurring when a party intentionally disrupts a valid contractual relationship between others without legal justification, thereby causing measurable economic harm to at least one of the contracting parties.
A paralegal student encounters tortious and attempts to infer its meaning by analyzing word parts and context. The student knows that tort is a legal term for a civil wrong and that -ious is an adjectival suffix. However, the student is uncertain whether tortious means 'of or constituting a tort' or 'causing physical torment.' Which reasoning strategy would most reliably distinguish between these two interpretations?
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