| A | B |
|---|
| credence | belief; acceptance as true |
| creditable | deserving praise |
| credulous | believing too easily; gullible |
| creed | statement of belieft or principle |
| deify | to make a god of |
| deity | a god or goddess |
| divine | to foretell by supernatural means; to know by intuition or insight |
| divinity | a god or goddess |
| apotheosis | making a god of something; deification |
| theocracy | government by divine power or priests |
| theology | study of religion |
| atheist | person who blieves there is not god |
| pantheism | identifying god with nature; belief in all gods |
| pantheon | all the gods of a people or religion |
| accredit | to authorize; to certify; to believe |
| consecrate | make or declare something sacred |
| execrate | denounce as evil; to curse |
| sacrament | something considered to have sacred significance |
| sacriledge | disrespect to something regarded as sacred |
| sacrosanct | sacred (often used ironically) |
| sanctimonious | pretending to be righteous |
| impious | lacking appropriate reverence or respect |
| sanctity | godliness |
| sanctuary | sacred place; any place of refuge |
| hierarchy | group organized by rank |
| hieroglyphic | written with pictures or present words; or something hard to read |
| expiate | make amends for; to atone for |
| piety | religious devotion; great respect toward something |
| sanction | approval, permission; or to approve or encourage |
| dogma | system of cotrines put forward by an auhority, especially a church, to be absolute truth |
| rationalize | to provide a rational basis for something, often by false or self-serving reasoning |
| heterodox | not in agreement with accepted beliefs; hodling unorthodox opinions |
| agnostic | person who believes nothing can be known about the existence of a god |
| physiognomy | the art of judgin human character by facial features |
| prognosis | prediction of the outcome of a disease |
| criterion | standard, rule, or test on which a dcision or judment can be made |
| hypocrisy | pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not have |
| anmesty | a general pardon for offenders, especially political offenses |
| mnemonic | relating to or assisting the memory |
| frenetic | frantic; frenzied |
| schizophrenia | severe mental disorder win which a person cannot act rationally |
| arraign | to call to court to answer charges; to accuse |
| rationale | reasons underlying something; often presented as a statement |
| dogmatic | pertaining to dogma; expressed in an authoritative or arrogant manner |
| sapient | wise; insightful |
| prescience | knowledge of events before they occur; foresight |
| cognition | act of perceiving or knowing |
| cognizant | aware; having knowledge of something |
| connoisseur | expert in the manners of art and taste |
| notorious | widely and unfavorably known; infamous |
| compute | determine by mathematics |
| impute | attribute or ascribe a quality, espeically a fault, to a person |
| repute | assign a reputation to |
| putative | supposed; reputed |
| presage | give a sign or warning about the future |
| sagacious | shrewd; having good judgement; perceptive |
| conscientious | guided by one's sense of right and wrong |
| plebiscite | direct vote of all the people of a courntry on an important matter; a referendum |
| sage | person who is honored for wisdom and experience |
