| A | B |
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| accredit | to authorize; certify; believe |
| credence | belief; acceptance as true |
| creditable | deserving praise |
| credulous | believing too easily; gullible |
| creed | statement of belief or principle |
| deify | to make a god of |
| deity | god or goddess |
| divine | to foretell by supernatural means; to know by intuition or insight |
| divinity | god or goddess; divine being; the state of being divine; the study of Christian theology |
| apotheosis | making a god of something; deification; a glorified ideal, and essence |
| theocracy | government by divine power or priests |
| theology | the study of religion |
| athiest | 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 |
| Pantheon | domed temple built in Rome in 27 BC, dedicated to the gods |
| consecrate | to make something sacred; 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 |
| consecrate | to make or declare something sacred; to dedicate something to a goal |
| execrate | to denounce as evil or vile, curse, detest |
| sacrament | something considered to have sacred significance |
| sacrilege | disrespect something regarded as sacred |
| sacrosanct | sacred (used ironically) |
| sanctimonious | pretending to be religious |
| sanction | approval, support, permission; penalty for breaking a law or custom (plural); to approve, encourage (singular) |
| sanctity | godliness, holiness |
| sanctuary | a sacred place; any place of refuge |
| hierarchy | group organized by rank |
| hieroglyphic | written with pictures to represent sounds or meanings of words; 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 allotment or salary |
