LSAT Vocabulary: Actions

After the sidewalk plan was read aloud, the neighborhood council ratified it by a show of hands, and the chair entered it in the minutes as the plan the block would follow.

Ms. Alvarez waived the late-filing charge, writing across the invoice that the firm would not collect it.

The neighborhood council amended the noise rule by replacing ten o'clock with nine o'clock for weekend nights.

The hearing officer recused herself when she realized the shop owner was her brother-in-law, and a different officer took the chair.

To save the morning, both lawyers acceded to the alley map as accurate, so neither side called a surveyor.

The review panel remanded the file to the first officer because the written findings left out the measurements.

When counsel objected that the question assumed a fact not in evidence, the officer sustained the objection and told the witness not to answer.

Counsel objected to the chart, but the officer overruled the objection and allowed the witness to explain the columns.

Before the memo went on the open shelf, the librarian redacted the client's home address with a thick black mark.

The firm notary notarized the affidavit after watching Ms. Chen sign and checking her identification.

Unhappy with the ruling, the shop owner appealed by filing a short request that a higher panel look at the decision again.

The chair mediated the fence argument, giving each neighbor a turn and then writing down the height both would accept.

The partner delegated the lease research to an associate and turned back to the client waiting in the conference room.

The mail clerk vouched for the tenant's account by describing the same three delivery attempts on the same dates.

Counsel disproved the claim of no notice by holding up a delivery receipt signed in March.

With that receipt on the table, counsel acknowledged that notice had reached the tenant.

The council rescinded the porch permit it had issued in May, and the permit no longer stood once the measurements proved wrong.

The council promulgated the leaf-pickup rule by posting the full text at the library and on the block bulletin.

On the alley-light motion, Ms. Brooks abstained, and the minutes listed her as not casting a vote.

At seven the chair convened the neighborhood council, and the members opened their agendas and grew quiet.

Still unsure about the cost, the council tabled the mural proposal until the June meeting.

Once the last change was in, the council adopted the budget and told the treasurer to spend according to its lines.

The managing partner vetoed the new retainer form after the associates had agreed to use it, so the office kept the old form.

The council enacted the quiet-hours rule, and from that night sidewalk radios had to be lowered after nine.

The council repealed the old curfew, and the minutes stated that residents were no longer bound by it.

The librarian revised the shelf guide, rewriting the city-ordinance section so the new volume numbers were correct.

In her research note, the student cited section 14 of the city sign code as the rule the shop had to follow.

The student annotated the statute, penciling a short reminder beside the clause on fence height.

The associate excerpted the opinion, copying only the paragraph the partner had starred and leaving the rest on the shelf.

The clerk compiled the exhibits by pulling the letters, photos, and receipts into one numbered binder.

The librarian cataloged the donated volumes, entering each title and year in the firm index.

The clerk retrieved the missing brief from the closed-stack shelf and set it on the reading table.

The partner circulated the memo, and by noon every associate on the matter had a copy in hand.

Before the client arrived, the associate briefed the partner on the three open points in the lease.

A week before the hearing, counsel deposed the neighbor, asking questions while she was under oath and a reporter typed each answer.

The clerk swore the witness, who then promised to tell the truth before the first question.

The officer recessed the hearing at eleven and told the parties to return in twenty minutes.

The officer sequestered the two witnesses in separate rooms so that neither could hear the other speak.

The clinic manager disclosed the billing error, telling Mr. Patel that the lab charge on his statement was not the right amount.

The firm withheld the draft letter until the client had approved the final paragraph.

After the nurse explained the blood test, the patient consented and rolled up a sleeve.

The patient declined the extra scan and told the desk she did not want it.

The nurse referred the patient to the eye clinic down the hall for the next part of the exam.

Late that afternoon the clinic discharged the patient, who left with a page of care instructions.

The clinic admitted the patient for overnight observation after the dizziness returned.

At the walk-in desk the nurse triaged the group, bringing the person with chest pain in ahead of the routine pressure checks.

The clinician diagnosed the rash as a reaction to a new soap after examining the patient's arms and asking what had changed that week.

The clinician prescribed a mild cream and told the patient to apply it each morning and night.

The nurse administered the vaccine by giving the injection in the patient's upper arm.

After the injection, the nurse monitored the patient's pulse and checked the number again every few minutes.

Unsure of the dose, the clinician consulted a colleague and waited to hear her view before writing the order.

The clinic director authorized the extra evening shift by signing the note that let the nurses stay.

After the desk mix-up, the director revoked the visitor pass, and the old badge no longer opened the side door.

The firm reauthorized the library contract, signing papers that kept the subscription going for another year.

The partners negotiated the office lease, exchanging proposals on rent and repairs until both sides were ready to sign.

They compromised on the rent, with the firm accepting a smaller break and the landlord paying for the paint.

The associate drafted the client letter and left that first version on the partner's chair.

She edited the letter, cutting two long sentences and fixing the date of the hearing.

The clerk proofread the filing and marked mistyped words in the captions before the packet left the office.

On the cover sheet the clerk affirmed that the photocopy matched the original she had just compared it with.

The librarian certified the copy by stamping the last page as a true reproduction of the volume.

At the conference table the client executed the agreement, signing each flagged line so the lease would bind both sides.

She initialed the bottom of every page to show she had gone through the lease page by page.

The partner countersigned the check, placing his signature beside the associate's so the bank would accept it.

The clerk voided the old receipt with a stamp, and the paper could not be presented for payment again.

The firm reimbursed the courier for the filing fee she had laid out from her own pocket.

The partner allocated the month's hours, setting twenty aside for research and ten for client calls.

The office manager audited the invoices, setting each charge beside the ledger before any payment went out.

The bookkeeper squared the ledger, changing two entries until the firm total matched the bank statement.

On the first of the month the firm invoiced the client for the work on the lease review.

The client remitted the fee, and the check reached the firm the following week.

The shop owner retained the small firm by signing a letter that brought it on to review the lease.

Because the request form lacked the required measurements, the officer dismissed the request and closed the file.

The officer granted one extra day, and the late pages were accepted into the record.

The officer denied the request for an extra day in a short note and left the original date in place.

The officer continued the hearing until Thursday so both sides could bring the missing letters.

The records clerk hastened the copy order, moving it ahead of the routine requests on the counter.

The council shelved the alley-light vote and placed it on the agenda for the following meeting.

The nurse prioritized the patient with chest pain and brought him in before anyone waiting for a routine checkup.

The council implemented the weekend shuttle, and the van ran its first loop that Saturday.

The council clerk enforced the sign rule by directing the shop to remove the banner that exceeded the width limit.

The shop complied with the sign rule and took the oversized banner down that same afternoon.

The drafter conformed the bylaw to the city code, changing the fence sentence until the heights agreed.

The chair clarified the motion by restating the exact fence height the members were about to vote on.

The librarian paraphrased the statute, turning the fence rule into everyday words for the student.

The associate summarized the long opinion, telling the partner the result in three sentences.

Asked what the short note had skipped, she elaborated and supplied the dates and the names from the call.

The drafter omitted the old phone number, so it did not appear anywhere in the public notice.

She inserted a sentence about weekend hours between the two paragraphs on weekday visits.

She deleted the home address from the public notice, leaving only the office address on the page.

The council substituted a shorter set of quiet hours and struck the old times from the rule.

The librarian restored the loose page, setting it back into the volume at the place where it had been torn out.

The firm preserved the original letter, leaving that sheet unmarked and making every note on a copy.

The clerk archived the closed matters, boxing them for storage so the open shelf held only active files.

After a pipe leaked over the carrel, the librarian salvaged the volume by drying each page until the margin notes could be read again.

The clerk updated the room directory, replacing the old numbers with the ones on the new floor plan.

The nurse corrected the chart by changing the birth year that had been entered wrong.

The front-desk clerk verified the address, comparing it with the card the patient had just handed over.

The office manager investigated the missing invoice and kept searching the mail log until a copy turned up.

The hearing clerk ascertained the filing deadline by reading the date printed on the notice.

After both neighbors spoke, the council determined the fence limit and settled on six feet.

The neighbors resolved the parking dispute by signing a schedule of which car would use the spot each day.

When the last statement ended, the officer concluded the hearing and closed the record.

The officer commenced the hearing by naming the matter and asking each party to state a name.

The chair presided, calling on speakers in the order they had raised their hands and holding the talk to the agenda.

The chair recognized Ms. Ibarra, who had waited with her hand up, and she was then allowed to address the council.

Ms. Cole seconded the motion for crosswalk paint, adding her support so the chair could put the question to a vote.