right [raɪt]. As an adjective, in contrast to last week’s word, this has many positive meanings: correct, suitable, fair, honourable, real, appropriate. It’s also a direction – the opposite of left. And, legally, it’s also another word for laws that protect people (as embodied by the European Court of Human Rights in The Hague).
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