English Vocabulary Ch. 1-6 Classical Roots D
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- accredit
- to authorize; to certify; to believe
- credence
- belief; acceptance as true
- creditable
- deserving praise
- credulous
- believing too easily; gullible
- creed
- a statement of belief or principle
- CREDO
- "to believe"
- DEUS
- "god"
- deify
- to make a god of
- deity
- a god or goddess
- DIVINO
- "to fortell"
- divine
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1. to fortell by supernatural means
2. to know by intuition or insight - divinity
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1. a god or goddess; a divine being
2. the state of being divine
3. the study of Christian theology - THEOS
- "god"
- apotheosis
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1. making a god of something; deification
2. a glorified ideal; an essence - 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. (When capitalized, refers to teh circular domed temple in Rome built in 27 BC and dedicated to all the gods)
- SACER
- "sacred"
- consecrate
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1. to make or declare something sacred
2. to dedicate something to a goal - execrate
- to denounce as vile or evil; to curse; to detest;
- sacrament
- something considered to have sacred significance
- sacrilege
- disrespect to something regarded as sacred
- sacrosanct
- sacred (often used ironically)
- SANCTUS
- "holy"
- sanctimonious
- pretending to be righteous
- sanction
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1. approval; support; permission
2. (usually plural) a penalty for breaking with law or custom
3. to approve; to encourage - sanctity
- godliness; holiness
- sanctuary
- a sacred place; any place of refuge
- HIEROS
- "holy"
- hierarchy
- a group organized by rank
- hieroglyphic
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1. written with pictures to represent sounds or meanings of words
2. hard to read - expiate
- to make amends for; to atone for
- piety
- religious devotion; great respect toward something, especially parents
- impious
- sacrilegious; profane; lacking appropriate reverence or respect
- pittance
- a meager portion of anything, especially an allowance or salary
- DOXA
- "opinion"
- dogma
- a system of doctrines put forward by an authority, especially a church, to be absolute truth
- dogmatic
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1. pertaining to dogma
2. expressed in an authoritative or arrogant manner - heterodox
- not in agreement with accepted beliefs; holding unorthodox opinions
- GNOS
- "to know"
- agnostic
- a person who believes nothing can be known about the existence of God
- physiognomy
- the art of judging human character by facial features; facial features when regarded as revealing character
- prognosis
- a prediction of the outcome of a disease; any forecast or prediction
- criterion
- a standard, rule, or test on which a decision or judgement can be made
- hypocrisy
- pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not have
- MNEMON
- "mindful"
- amnesty
- a general pardon for offenders, especially for political offenses
- mnemonic
- relating to or assisting the memory
- PHREN
- "heart" "mind" "midriff"
- frenetic
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1. frantic, frenzied
2. a frenzied person - schizophrenia
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1. a severe mental disorder in which a person becomes unable to act or reason in a rational way, often with delusions and withdrawl from relationship
2. a situation of extreme conflict between choices, loyalties, or ways of life - RATIO
- "reason"
- REOR
- "to calculate"
- arraign
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1. (legal) to call to court to answer charges
2. to accuse; to charge with wrongdoing - rationale
- the reasons underlying something; often presended as a statement (used with for)
- rationalize
- to provide a rational basis for something; often by faslse or self-serving reasoning
- sapient
- wise; insightful (often used ironically)
- sage
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1. a person, usually elderly, who is honored for wisdom and experience
2. wise; judicious - cognition
- the act of perceiving or knowing
- cognizant
- aware; having knowledge of something
- connoisseur
- an expert or very discriminating person, especially in matters of art and taste
- notorious
- widely and unfavorably known; infamous
- PUTO
- "to reckon"
- compute
- to determine by mathematics
- impute
- to attribute or ascribe a quality, especially a fault, to a person
- repute
- to assign a reputation to (usuallly used with to be)
- putative
- supposed; reputed
- SAGIO
- "to percieve acutely"
- presage
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1. a sign or feeling concerning some future event; omen; foreboding
2. to give a sign or warning about the future - sagacious
- shrewd; having good judgement; perceptive
- conscientious
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1. guided by one's sense of right and wrong
2. thorough; with careful attention - plebiscite
- a direct vote of all the people of a country or district on an important matter; a referendum
- prescience
- knowledge of events before they occur; foresight; foreknowledge
- LITTERA
- "letter"
- alliteration
- the occurance of the same initial sound in several words in succession
- literal
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1. in accordance with the explicit or primary meaning of a word or phrase, not its metaphorical meaning
2. word for word; verbatim
3. concerned mainly with facts; unimaginative - literate
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1. able to read and write
2. knowledgeable; educated - obliterate
- to do away with completely; to wipe out; erase
- SCRIBO, SCRIP
- "to write"
- ascribe
- to attribute to a particular cause, source, or origin (used with to)
- circumscribe
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1. to draw a line around; to encircle
2. to confine; to limit - conscription
- a military draft
- proscribe
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1. to denounce or condem
2. to prohibit; to forbid - subscribe
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1. to pledge to pay for something or to contribute to something; to place an order by signing
2. to express consent or agreement; to assent
3. to sign one's name to something - transcribe
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1. to make a copy of; to write out fully
2. to make a sound recording for later reproduction
3. to arrange music for an instrument different from the one first composed for - ONOMA
- "name" <G.
- acronym
- a word composed of the first letters or parts of a name or series of words
- onomatopoeia
- a word that sounds like the thing it names
- pseudonym
- a fictious name
- NOMEN
- "name" <L.
- ignominious
- shameful; disgraceful
- nomenclature
- a system of naming, especially in the arts or sciences
- GRAPH
- "to draw"
- GRAMMA
- "picture"
- epigram
- a short, witty saying
- epigraph
- an inscription on a monument or building, on a coin, or at the beginning of a book or chapter
- choreography
- the art of creating dances
- graffiti
- words or drawing scratched or scribbled on a wall
- graphic
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1. relating to the visual arts like drawing, painting, lettering, or engraving
2. giving a vivid description - lithograph
- a print produced by a printing process in which a smooth surface is treated so that ink will adhere only to the design to be printed
- topography
- the features of an area, such as its rivers, mountains, and roads
- LEXIS
- "speech"
- eclectic
- consisting of parts selected from various sources
- lexicon
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1. a specialized dictionary
2. the specialized vocabulary of a particular topic or profession - LOGOS
- "word"
- analogy
- a comparison between things that are alike in some ways
- apologist
- a person who makes an arguement in support of someone or something
- epilogue
- short concluding section in a literary work
- logo
- a symbol or design that serves to identify an organization or institution
- logistics
- (used with a singular verb) the organization of supplies and services
- eulogy
- a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially honoring the dead