Vocab PART ONE Lessons 1 and 2
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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
- deify
- To make a god of
- deity
- a god or godess
- divine
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1. To foretell by supernatural means.
2. To know by intuition or insight - divinity
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1. A god or godess; a divine being.
2. The state of being divine
3. The study of Christian theology - 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
- athiest
- 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.
- 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
- sanctimonious
- Pretending to be righteous
- sanction
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1. Approval; support; permission
2. A penalty for breaking with law or custom - sanctity
- Godliness; holiness
- sanctuary
- A sacred place; any place of refuge
- 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 protion of anything, especially an allowance or salary