Monday, March 7, 2016

This Week's ELA: Cred and Jur/Jus/Jud


Spelling: Roots cred and jur/jus/jud
*Spelling choice activity is due Thursday if you made less than 90% on last week’s spelling test.  A vocabulary choice is due Thursday if you made less than 90% on last week’s vocabulary test. 
*You need to know the definitions of these words and how to use them as well as how to spell them for the tests on Friday THURSDAY.  Use the worksheet with the definitions to help you study.

cred = ________________________________      jur/jus/jud = ___________________________________

1.     credible (adj.)               __________ believable; reliable
2.     incredible (adj.)           __________ a document that proves a person is believable
3.     credential (n.)              __________ doubting; unwilling or unable to believe
4.     credit (v.)                       __________ to believe that someone will do something
5.     creditor (n.)                  __________ to refuse to believe; to reject as untrue
6.     credulous (adj.)           __________ tending to believe too easily; easily convinced; easily fooled
7.     accreditation (n.)       __________ a set of religious beliefs or principles
8.     creed (n.)                       __________ not believable; improbable; unlikely
9.     discredit (v.)                 __________ granting approval or believe in a school
10. incredulous (adj.)       __________ a person who believes that he will be paid back the money
that he loaned

                                                                        a person chosen to interpret laws,
11. just (n.)                           __________    decide on a winner, or settle a controversy
12.  justice (n.)                    __________ fairness or rightfulness
13. judge (n.)                        __________ to break the law by lying; to break a formal promise or an oath
14. perjury (n.)                    __________ to give up rights; to recant
15. justify (n.)                      __________ an expert in law
16. jury (n.)                           __________ the fact that is said to prove that something is true
17. jurist (n.)                        __________ to prove; to offer (especially as in excuses or reasons)
18. justification (n.)          __________ lawful; fair
19.  abjure (n.)                     __________ a group of people sworn to abide by the laws to determine the truth
20. jurisdiction (n.)           __________ the territory or land in which justice and laws are
                                                                  administered and followed

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