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Owen’s English
Vocab Lesson 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| accredit | to authorize; to certify; to believe |
| credence | belief; acceptance as true |
| creditable | deserving praise |
| credulous | believing too easily; gulliable |
| creed | a statement of belief or principle |
| deify | to make a god of |
| deity | a god or goddess |
| divine | 1. to foretell by supernatural means 2. to know by intuition or insight |
| divinity | 1. a god or goddess; a divine being 2. the state of being divine 3. the study of Christian theology |
| apotheosis | making a god something; deification |
| theocracy | government by divine power or priests |
| theology | the study of religion |
| atheist | a person who believes there is no god |
| pantheism | identifying god with nature; belief in all gods |
| pantheon | all the gods of a people or religion |