🇬🇧 Perjury meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Perjury is when a person stands in a courtroom, promises to tell the whole truth, and then lies on purpose anyway. In many countries, people must swear or promise to be honest before they speak in court. If they knowingly tell lies after that promise, they can get into serious trouble, because perjury is a crime. Courts need true information to decide what really happened, so perjury is taken very seriously and can be punished by fines or even going to jail.

The knight almost committed perjury by denying he was scared of spiders, until one crawled by and he screamed into the microphone.

The donut thief tried to blame the dog in court, but the frosting on his own face made his perjury extremely obvious.

The robot knew that lying under oath was perjury, so it updated its software to “Truth Mode” before entering the courtroom.

The wizard avoided perjury by admitting, “Yes, I did turn my teacher into a toad, but only for five minutes.”

The fish was accused of perjury for swearing it had never seen water before while swimming laps around the judge.

At the courtroom, the witness raised a hand and swore an oath. She lied about the night, and the judge whispered perjury into the papers. The clerk muttered perjury. The lawyer said perjury again, and the jurors gasped at obvious perjury. Outside, the witness, face pale, knew her lie would bring perjury charges. The judge banged the bench; she cried.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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