| Front | Bellicose (adjective) |
|---|---|
| Back | Warlike, pugnacious, aggressively hostile. Example: Squirrels are restless, courageous and pugnacious little animals. Bellicose shares the root bell with a number of other words, such as belligerence, antebellum, and rebellion. This root is from the Latin noun bellum, meaning “war.” A good key word for the root bell is rebellion. Belligerent is a close synonym for bellicose that shares the root bell and also means “warlike and aggressively hostile.” |
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