adherent (of) | a person who supports a particular idea or party; hołdujący | |
convert (to) | someone who has taken on a new set of beliefs; neofita | |
fanatic | (disapproving) someone with a very strong belief | |
radical | someone who believes there should be extreme changes | |
reactionary | (disapproving) someone opposed to change or new ideas | |
bigot | (disapproving) someone with strong, unreasonable beliefs who don't accept other arguments | |
an assumption | unquestioning acceptance that sth is true | |
to derive from | to has origins in | |
to eradicate | to abolish, to get rid of | |
postulates | basic principles; postulaty | |
a consciousness | an awareness | |
to usher in | to introduce | |
credible | believable | |
credulous | gullible, naive | |
to give/lend/add credence to sth | (formal) to accept that something is true | |
ingenuous | trusting, sincere, often in a way that seems foolish | |
to ascribe/attribute | to consider sth caused, created or possessed by a thing or person | |
a tenet | one of the pronciples on which a belief is based | |
to give sb the benefit of the doubt | dać komuś kredyt zaufania | |
to take sth with a pinch of salt | brać coś z przymrużeniem oka | |
I don't buy it | Nie kupuję tego (nie wierzę w to) | |
Pull the other one | Nabieraj kogoś innego | |
I wasn't born yesterday | Nie urodziłem się wczoraj (nie wierzę w to) | |
What do you take for? | Za kogo ty mnie masz? (nie wierzę ci) | |