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Cl 1 Believe words
Albrecht's Classic Vocab Lesson 1 words and roots
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| CREDO (L) | "to believe" |
| credence | belief; acceptance as true |
| accredit | to authorize; to certify; to believe |
| creditable | deserving praise |
| credulous | believing too easily; gullible |
| creed | a statement of belief or principle |
| DEUS (L) | "god" |
| deify | to make a god of |
| deity | a god or goddess |
| DIVINO (L) DIVINUS (L) | "to foretell (predict)" "divine (supremely good or directly from God)" |
| divine | to foretell by supernatural means. to know by intuition or insight to locate water using folkloric methods |
| divinity | a god or goddess; a divine being the state of being divine (as in the divinity of the Holy Trinity or the divinity of the Inca gods). study of 'christian theology. |
| THEOS (G) | "god" |
| apotheosis | making a god of something; deification is=condition, apo=away from, theo=god so, the condition of taking something away from the god, as in taking holiness from the god and placing it on something else, like a football player. |
| theocracy | government by divine power or priests or religion. |
| theology | the study of religion |
| atheist a=without or not, theo=god, ist=a person, so... atheist = | a person who believes there is no god. |
| pantheism pan=all or many, theo=god, ism=the condition (or situation) of. | identifying god with nature; belief in all gods. |
| pantheon | all the gods of a people or religion. IF it is capitalized, it refers to a specific building of that name in Rome. |