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Roots #6: cred, jur, jus, jud (BK1)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do you call an area of land that is governed by a person who can hold those people accountable for following specific laws?

a)

jurisdiction

b)

justification

c)

jurist

d)

justice

2.

What does every citizen have a right to in the United States?

a)

judge

b)

justice

c)

justification

d)

perjury

3.

Who is the person who leads the case in a courtroom and makes sure the lawyers conduct a fair trial?

a)

jurist

b)

perjury

c)

jury

d)

judge

4.

Who is known as an expert in law?

a)

jurist

b)

jury

c)

jurisdiction

d)

perjury

5.

When answering any test question that asks why, it is important to know that you are expected to do this to your answer.

a)

perjury

b)

jurisdiction

c)

abjure

d)

justify

6.

If you lie when you promise to tell the truth in a courtroom, you can be sent to jail because what is against the law?

a)

jurisdiction

b)

abjuring

c)

perjury

d)

jurists

7.

Your reasons for why it was okay to be home fifteen minutes late are known as these.

a)

justification

b)

jurisdiction

c)

perjury

d)

justice

8.

As a citizen you may do this.

a)

abjure

b)

perjury

c)

jurisdiction

d)

justice

9.

A decision that is fair is also what?

a)

just

b)

abjured

c)

jurisdiction

d)

jurist

10.

A fair trial for any suspect requires which of the following?

a)

jury

b)

justification

c)

abjure

d)

perjury

11.

If a person has a reputation for not telling the truth, people will tend to do this to what he says.

a)

discredit

b)

incredible

c)

credit

d)

credential

12.

This person is waiting to be paid back the money that he loaned. He believes that he will get it back.

a)

credential

b)

incredible

c)

creed

d)

creditor

13.

This is a document that people, such as teachers, earn to show that they know what they are doing.

a)

credential

b)

creditor

c)

credit

d)

creed

14.

This is a word that describes a person who believes everything he hears.

a)

accreditation

b)

credential

c)

creditor

d)

credulous

15.

What do you give to someone if she follows through on what she says she will do?

a)

credit

b)

creditor

c)

creeds

d)

credential

16.

A person in jail or a friend who is always in trouble would never be described as this.

a)

incredulous

b)

credible

c)

creditor

d)

creed

17.

Schools must prove that they have high standards in order to keep this.

a)

accreditation

b)

creeds

c)

incredulous

d)

creditors

18.

Which word describes something that you have a hard time believing but really did happen?

a)

incredible

b)

credulous

c)

creed

d)

creditor

19.

A person who never believes anything she hears would be described as which of the following?

a)

credible

b)

incredulous

c)

creditor

d)

creed

20.

Each church or religious group follows one of these that may be more or less specific to its members.

a)

creed

b)

creditors

c)

credentials

d)

accreditation