Webster Essential Vocabulary

credence(KREE dins) n. belief (especially in the testimony or words of others)

• The evidence gave Willis’s words credence.


• The district attorney did not give credenceto the street vendor’s words and
  wanted to see proof.


• Most people do not give credenceto UFO stories.
  critique(kri TEEK) n. a critical analysis of something —vt. to analyze some-
  thing, such as a work of art, a book, and so on; to criticize


• TV critics must produce several movie critiquesper week.


• Literature students are often asked to critiquea work of poetry or prose.


• Before one critiquesanything, he or she should have some benchmark by
  which to judge.
  [-d, critiquing] [Syn. criticize]

Quick Review #95.

Match the word from column 2 with the word from column 1 that means most
nearly the same thing.

C: GRE Words 265

1. convoluted


2. copious


3. corona


4. correlate


5. cosmos


6. counterpoint


7. covert


8. covetous


9. cower


10. craven


11. credence


12. critique

a. greedy

b. analyze

c. contrast

d. cowardly

e. cringe

f. belief

g. plentiful

h. mutually link

i. secret

j. complicated

k. universe

l. crown

cryptic(KRIP tik) adj. having a hidden or disguised meaning; ambiguous;
mysterious

• The sphinx was famous in ancient times for asking crypticriddles.


• The oracle at Delphi gave crypticprophecies that could be interpreted
  many different ways.
  [-ally adv.] [Syn. obscure]