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39 Week Vocabulary Lesson Plan Week #2: CROSSWORD for roots DICT and CRED
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ACROSS
5 - Permission for a customer to have goods or services that will be paid for at a later date
6 - To point out or demonstrate; to serve as a sign, symptom or token of
8 - To damage the reputation of; to destroy belief, faith or trust in� to defame
11 - Any formula or set of beliefs, doctrine or tenet
12 - A decree issued by a sovereign or other authority; any authoritative command
14 - A book containing a selection of the works of a language, usually arranged alphabetically
15 - Leader of a country or form of government in which absolute power is exercised by an imperious ruler
16 - A person who behaves badly or criminally; a villain; evildoer
DOWN
1 - Evidence (usu. written) of entitlement to rights or privileges
2 - The right, power or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies
3 - Statement or system of beliefs, principles or opinions that guides a person's actions
4 - To foretells the future; to prophecize; to declare or tell in advance
7 - Capable of being believed; trustworthiness; confidence generating; reliability
9 - So extraordinary as to seem impossible; astonishing; hard to believe
10 - State of being set apart for a purpose; a ceremony attending the official opening of something
13 - To proclaim; declare; affirm; connote; imply
Additional "CRED + DICT" words NOT in the crossword but ones you should know:
Incredulous = Indicating disbelief or amazement; skeptical; unwilling or disinclined to believe or trust too readily
Credence = Something establishing acceptance as true or valid; belief; trustworthiness
Abdicate = To give up or renounce (authority, duties, a high office etc.) esp. in a voluntary, public or formal manner
Indictment = A formal accusation by a grand jury, initiating a criminal case; any charge, serious criticism or cause for blame
Dictatorial = Inclined to exercise absolute power without free consent of others; imperious; overbearing
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