Roots and Derivatives
Corp(or): body, corpse
Cred: to believe, to trust, credo
Cur(r), Curs, course: to run, to flow, current
Dic(t): to speak, to say, diction
Word List
Benediction: the invocation of a divine blessing, as at the close of a religious service; a blessing or state of blessedness. I recieved a sensation of benediction at today's mass.
Concourse: a running or flowing together; a broad public walkway or hallway; a crowd or throng. I jogged along the concourse in the building to see what had occured.
Concurrent: occuring at the same time; meeting or acting together. In order to open the vault, we have to turn our keys on a concurrent fashion.
Corporal: related to the physical body. Anatomy is a branch of corporal study.
Corpulent: very stout; fleshy and obese; fat. The corpulent elephant charged towards us.
Credibility: the quality of being believable or trustworthy. He is a source of credibility since he has never lied to me.
Credulity: the (naive) willingness to believe too easily without proof. The people who display credulity in this town will believe he is innocent after his pathetic hearing.
Cursory: done in a superficial or hasty manner. The old man displayed cursory when he hastily confiscated the toy from the toddler.
Dictum: an authoritative saying or maxim. The judge made announced his dictum on the defendant's fat yesterday evening.
Incorporate: to form into one body or fuctioning unit; to combine several different things into a whole. In order to incorporate religious ideaology into global occurances, one must have a penetrating outlook on life.
Incredulous: not believing, skeptical, or doubting. One must always be incredulous of the word of one who is not credible.
Indicative: characteristic of or very much like; suggestive. Not many of my associates have indicative mentalities as I do.
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