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| comes from the Latin word meaning "war" |
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| existing before war, espically before the American Civil War (1861-1865) |
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| warlike, aggressive, quarrelsome |
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| aggressiveness, combativeness |
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| open defiance and opposition, sometimes armed, to a person or thing in authority |
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| related to the Latin words for "agree" and "peace" |
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| to soothe anger or agitation; to subdue by armed action |
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| a person opposed to war or violence, espically someone who refuses to bear arms or to fight, on moral or religious grounds |
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| an agreement between two or more people or groups; a treaty or formal agreement between nations to deal with a prolbem or to resolve a dispute |
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| to make peacful and quiet, to calm or satisfy |
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| comes from the Latin word hospes and its stern hospit- meaning both "host" and "guest" |
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| a person given or held to ensure that an agreement, demand, or treaty is kept or fulifilled |
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| a place or program to hold care for the terminally ill |
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| an inexpensive, supervisied place for young travlers to stay overnight |
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| not welcoming or generous, unfriendly; providing no shelter or food (such as a desert) |
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| comes from the Latin word amare, "to love" |
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| charmed or fasicinated, inflamed with love |
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| hostile, unfriendly, or harmful |
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| a lover, often secret, not allowed by law or coustom |
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| comes from the Latin roof for "fault" or "crime" or "accusiation" |
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| the study of crime, criminals, law enforcement, and punishment |
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| to remove or reduce the criminal status of |
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| to show evidence of involvement in a crime or fault |
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| an accusiation in retaliatin for an accusiation made agianst oneself; the making of such an accusiation |
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| comes from the Latin words for "prove" or "proof" and "honesty" or "integirity" |
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| a formal or offical act of approving; praise, usually give with pleasure or enthuisiam |
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| to show that something is not what it has claimed to be; refute |
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| absolute honesty and uprightness |
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| a person thought of throughly bad character |
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| comes from the Latin word meaning "heavy, weighty, serious" |
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| pregnant or enlarged with something |
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| great or very difnified seriousness |
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| to move or be drawn toward something, especially by natural tendancy or as if drawn by an invisable force |
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| weighty, importance, seriousness, or dignity |
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| comes from the Latin adjective levis, meaning "light" and the verb leave, meaning "to raise" or "lighten" |
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| to lighten, lessen, or relieve, especially physical or mental suffering |
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| to lift up or raise; to raise in rank or status |
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| somehting that lightens and raises; something that modifies, eases, or animates |
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| frivolity, lack of approprite seriousness |
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| a guide, espically one who takes tourists to mesuems, monuments, or architectical sites and explains what is being seen |
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| to bully; to intimidate or harass by bluster or personal pressure |
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| an attitude or way of life based on the idea that pleasure happiness should be the chief goal |
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| a senior figure or leader in one's field |
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| marked by simplicatity and often strict self-disicpline or self-denial |
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| extremely loud, often with especially deep-richness of sound |
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| seemlingly indifferent to pleasure or pain |
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| marked by a luxerious or senual way of life |
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| comes from the Latin word for "do, go, lead, drive" |
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| to move something with an irregular, rapid, violent action; to stir up or excite |
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| to carry on a lawsuit by judicial process |
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| recklessly or wastefully extravagant; spend thrift |
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| the center of worship and communal life of a Jewish congregation; temple |
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| comes from venine, the Latin verb meaning "come" |
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| a coming or arrival; a coming into use |
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| indined to seek out risk or danger; bold, daring, adventerous |
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| the place where a trial is held; the location of an event |
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| comes from capere, "take, sieze" |
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| the act of welcoming; a social gathering where guests are formally welcomed |
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| starting to come into or being or to become evident |
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| noticable or able to be felt by the senses |
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| open to some infulence; responsive; able to be submitted to an action or process |
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| comes from "end" or "boundry" |
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| sympathy, attraction; relationship |
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| authoritative and final; specifying perfectly or precisely |
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| extremely or immeasurably small |
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| comes from jacere "throw" or "hurl" |
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| near, neighboring; sharing a common boundry or border |
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| the curved path an abject makes into space, or that a thrown object follows as it rises and falls to earth |
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| trahere, "drag" or "draw" |
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| to decrease the importance, value, or effectiveness of something |
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| drawn out, continued, or extended |
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| a taking back or withdrawl; a denial of what one has previously said |
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| not easily handled, led, taught, or controlled |
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| tending to promote, encourage, or assist; helpful |
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| subtraction; reaching a conculsion by reasoning |
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| persuade, infulence; attraction or charm |
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| temptation to wrong, especially by sexual intercourse; attraction or charm |
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| to carry out or proform; to put to death legally or formally |
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| execessively submissive; obdient, flattering |
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| arranged in order or a series; following a series |
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