Vocab: cred, de-, and dis-

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

• credible

• credential

• incredulous

• creditor

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

• deprive

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.

• deprive

• decode

• decline

• disgrace

not able or willing to believe something; feeling or showing a lack of

belief.

• credible

• credential

• creed

• incredulous

able to be believed; reasonable to trust or believe.

• credible

• incredulous

• creed

• credential

to cause someone to feel ashamed; to cause someone or something to lose

or become unworthy of respect or approval.

• displace

• disgrace

• decode

• deprive

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

keep something.

• decode

• deprive

• 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.

• deprive

• decline

• decode

• displace

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

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

• creed

• creditor

• credible

• credential