vocab 3 test

cred

to believe, trust

credo

statement of beliefs

credulity

gullible

crypt

hidden

cub/cumb

to lie down

incumbent

existing, binding, obligatory

recumbent

to lie down, flat

culp

blame

culpable

deserving of blame

exculpate

to show innocence

inculpate

to incriminate

mea culpa

an acknowledgment of one's error

cour/cur

running, a course

de

away, off, down, completely, reversal

defile

desecrate, impair, to make unclean

delineate

to describe precisely

endemic

regularly found among a certain area

dem

people

di/dia

apart, through

diaphanous

light, delicate, sheer

dic/dict/dit

to say, tell, use words

abdicate

to renounce one's throne

dign

worth

deign

do something that one considers to be beneath one's dignity, condescending

indignant

angered at something unjust or wrong

disdain

feeling that someone is unworthy of respect

dis/dif

away from, apart

dac/doc

to teach

doctrinaire

one seeking to impose a doctrine

didactic

intended to carry a message

dog/dox

opinion

paradox

contradictory but true statement

dogma

rules laid out by authority

dol

suffer, pain

doleful

mournful

dolorous

mournful

indolent

lazy/idle

don/dot/dow

to give

endow

to equip

dub

doubt

dubiety

noun: to be uncertain

indubitable

impossible to doubt

duc/duct

to lead

dys

faulty

epi

upon

equ

equal