Vocabulary Building / Word Roots

The cred Family

Words About Believing

Thomas MeliSAT instructor
word rootA word part with an old meaning shared by a family of words, such as cred, believe, in credible and credence.

You’ll leave with these skills

You’ll fill in the blanks as the lesson teaches each skill.

  1. Link a family of words through their shared rootA root like cred blank.
  2. Tell credible claims from credulous and incredulous peopleA credulous person blank.
  3. Check every guess from a root against the sentenceA guess from a word’s letters blank.

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