First of all, let me recapitulate the roots we learnt so far.
                                                                           theo-  God
                                                                           pan-   all
                                                                          -cracy  government
                                                                           demo- people

I want to reiterate the fact that the roots are the gist of any vocabulary. If we master them, no word will be a bugbear to us. So make sure you conquered the above roots.

Now..., apotheosis

This is what exactly we do when our beloved cricketers are doing well. We will do nothing other than praising them. All the newspapers, magazines carry nothing but their photographs. This is what "apotheosis" means.  The act of raising a person to the status of God. You must have already observed this word has theo- (God) in it. It also contains another root apo- (from).

During this world cup we've noticed a banner saying "Cricket is our religion, and Sachin is our God". Isn't this an apotheosis? 


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