Vocabulary Unit 3

A quality, skill, or experience that makes a person suited to do a job.

• credible

• credential

• incredulous

Able to be believed; reasonable to trust or believe.

• credible

• creditor

• creed

• credential

A person, bank, or company that lends money to someone.

• credible

• discredential

• creed

• creditor

A statement of the basic beliefs of a religion; an idea or set of beliefs that guides the actions of a person or group.

• incredulous

• credible

• creed

• creditor

Not able or willing to believe something; feeling or showing a lack of belief.

• incredulous

• creditor

• credible

• credential

To take the job or position of someone or something; to force people or animals to leave the area where they live; to move something so that it is no longer in its original or regular location.

• displace

• decode

• disgrace

• decline

To cause someone to feel ashamed; to cause someone or something to lose or become unworthy of respect or approval.

• disgrace

• decode

• displace

• decline

To find or understand the true or hidden meaning of something; to change (secret messages, documents) from a set of letters, numbers, and/or symbols you cannot understand into words you can understand.

• decline

• decode

• disgrace

• decline

To become lower in amount or less in number; to become worse in condition or quality; Unfortunately, the patient’s health continued to decline. to say that you will not or cannot do something.

• decline

• decode

• disgrace

• deprive

To take something away from someone or something; to not allow to have or keep something.

• deprive

• displace

• decline

• decode