Lesson 3 Vocabulary

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

• Credential

• Credible

• Creditor

• Creed

Able to be believed; reasonable to trust or believe.

• Credential

• Creditor

• Credible

• Creed

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

• Credential

• Credible

• Creditor

• Creed

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

• Credential

• Creditor

• Credible

• Creed

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

• Creed

• Incredulous

• Displace

• Credible

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

• Disgrace

• Decode

• Deprive

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

• Displace

• Disgrace

• Decode

• Deprive

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.

• Displace

• Disgrace

• Decode

• Deprive

To become lower in amount or less in number; to become worse in condition or quality

• Deprive

• Decline

• Decode

• Disgrace

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

• Deprive

• Decline

• Decode

• Disgrace