Classical Roots 1-6
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- Accredit
- To authorize, certify, or believe
- Credulous
- gullible
- Deify
- To make a God of
- Divine
- To foretell by supernatural means, to know by intuition or insight
- Divinity
- A god or goddess; the state of being divine; the study of Christian theology
- Apotheosis
- making a god of something; deification
- consecrate
- to make or declare something sacred; to dedicate something to a goal
- execrate
- to denounce as vile or evil; to curse or detest
- sacrament
- something considered to have sacred significance
- sacrosant
- sacred (often used ironically)
- sanctimonious
- pretending to be righteous
- sanction
- approval, support, permission; a penalty for breaking with law or custom; to approve or encourage
- sanctity
- godliness, holiness
- expiate
- to make amends for; to atone
- piety
- religious tevotion; great respect toward something, especially parents
- impious
- sacreligious; profane; lacking appropriate reverence or respect
- dogma
- a system of doctrines put forward by an authority, especially a church, to be absolute truth
- heterodox
- not in agreement with accepted beliefs
- agnostic
- a person who believes nothing can be known about the existence of God
- amnesty
- a general pardon for offenders, esp. for political offenses
- mnmonic
- relating to or assisting the memory
- arraign
- to call to court to answer charges
- rationale
- the reasons underlying something, often presented as a statement
- sapient
- wise, insightful (often used ironically)
- impute
- to attribute or ascribe a quality, especially a fault, to a person
- repute
- to assign a reputation to
- putative
- supposed
- sagacious
- shred; having good judgement; perceptive
- plebiscite
- a direct vote of all the people of a country or district on an important matter; a referendum
- ascribe
- to attribute to a particular cause, source, or origin
- conscription
- a military draft
- proscribe
- to denounce or condemn
- ignominious
- shameful; disgraceful
- epigram
- a short witty saying
- epigraph
- an inscription on a monument or building, on a coin, or at the beg. of a book or chapter
- 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
- lexicon
- a specialized dictionary
- apologist
- a person who makes an argument in support of someone or something
- logistics
- the organization of supplies and services
- eulogy
- a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, esp. honoring the dea