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abrogate

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A quick definition of abrogate:

Abrogate: To cancel or get rid of a law or contract. This means that the law or contract is no longer valid or in effect. For example, if you make a promise with someone and then decide to cancel it, you are abrogating the promise. In some cases, only certain people or groups have the power to abrogate laws or contracts.

A more thorough explanation:

Definition: To formally cancel or repeal a law, contract, or agreement through an act of legislation, constitutional authority, or custom.

Example 1: The Supreme Court of Michigan explained that an existing constitutional provision can be altered or abrogated if a proposed amendment would change the existing wording of the provision or render it fully inoperative. This means that a law or provision can be completely removed or changed through a formal process.

Example 2: In Seminole Tribe v. Florida, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress cannot abrogate a state's sovereign immunity under Article One of the Constitution. This means that Congress cannot take away a state's right to immunity from lawsuits without the state's consent.

Example 3: In contract and insurance law, to abrogate is to rescind or terminate a contract. For example, if two parties agree to a contract and one party fails to fulfill their obligations, the other party may choose to abrogate the contract and nullify its existence.

Overall, to abrogate means to formally cancel or repeal a law, contract, or agreement through a formal process or act of authority.

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AngryMiniCar

16:16

Gimme some of that

eggan

16:16

ooo i have advice from a 169 scorer. basically with RC the main things you need to do to prepare are to pretend what youre reading is the most interesting thing ever, and prepare by reading more fiction (for adults)

eggan

16:17

novels like metamorphosis, brave new world, no longer human, crime & punishment, those kinds of novels for adults with complex language structure will be helpful (im just listing books i like but you can read anything)

RasheedWallaceFan

16:18

Read moby dick

NosyBeagle

16:18

@AngryMiniCar: ill trade u for your lr score lol

NosyBeagle

16:18

@windyMagician: sounds good. I will start doing this

AngryMiniCar

16:18

Naww I worked my asssss off for that LR result

NosyBeagle

16:18

lmaooo

eggan

16:19

you atted windy lol you probably meant to at me but thats ok

PremiumFrequentCrane

16:20

Also also, at the same time, the biglaw lawyers increasingly are going "fuck these t30 hires are really good (the non accommodated 160s who would be t14 people in 2008 over these accommodated 170s in the t14 lmfao)" lolololol Also for RC just the more you do the better you are.

AngryMiniCar

16:20

@eggan: thanks! I'll do that.

NemoPropheta

16:20

Sometimes my mind just goes blank when staring at an RC passage

NemoPropheta

16:21

what helped me most for RC was that the right answer will always be in the passage, even if its only implied

NemoPropheta

16:21

so you just have to justify your answer choice with specific line support

NosyBeagle

16:21

maybe i forgot who i was talking to. you can't scroll after a bit lol

windyMagician

16:22

@PremiumFrequentCrane: i dont have accomodations you absolute buffoon

NosyBeagle

16:22

trying to see if i have it in me to do another lr set

NosyBeagle

16:23

the best i've done on lr has been -10. I have a long way to go

windyMagician

16:23

@NosyBeagle: you need to be drilling weak question types and not doing full sets if you're at -10

NosyBeagle

16:25

@windyMagician: i would send the salute emoji if this website supported them

NosyBeagle

16:25

will start doing this

windyMagician

16:26

here u go: 🫡

AngryMiniCar

16:26

^^ I will say wrong answer journal helped me a loooooottt. I would put a small note on the bottom of every reviewed question about a concept/ idea that I learned from my mistake and review it every once in a while. I came from -11

NosyBeagle

16:28

🫡

AngryMiniCar

16:28

I think my issue with RC is that for LR if I misread that's one question. But if I misread the tone of an RC passage I'm screwed for a bunch of questions.

windyMagician

16:29

do you have a particularly hard time with one kind of passage, or is it more of an overall problem?

PremiumFrequentCrane

16:29

First, RC is something you been doing since grade 1, so unlike LR or LG, it is something you have been exposed to and you will have a natural affinity for it that will be hard to move beyond. Second, you need to just do more of them lol Know all the rules and question types etc. from a curriculum, one of the tried and true like PS or 7sage or what not, then you just drill. Of course that also means you need to review your answers in depth - you need to find where in your thought process you made an error so it doesnt happen again. It also helps to solidify right thought pathways. And not about content like "oh yeah i guess the blacks in 1870s latino communities were creole," but like "oh yes question asks for y and i said z so in the answer i mistook x for w being the right answer" lol aka structural approach. That is all i gots for free lol hire a tutor if you need more.

PremiumFrequentCrane

16:30

For LR, look at it as mathematical word problems with algebra.

AngryMiniCar

16:32

Thanks @premiumfrequentcrane. Windy I think (oddly enough) I'm having the most trouble with liberal arts/arts based passages. So anything about the arts/ a writer or author/ music I mess up on even if the passage is super easy.

PremiumFrequentCrane

16:34

Usually happens when you apply too much opinion to the passage lol that is also why i said 0 to -2 is RC mastery as opposed to -0 as sometimes you may think that author's pov in the opera comparative passages is "facetious" and they were looking for "apathetic"

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