1. Caesar’s English
Lesson Nine

2. Stem meaning examples cred believe incredulous, credible miss send missive, remiss, emission cide kill regicide, homicide dict say contradict, edict bell war rebellion, belligerent

3. CRED means believe
When we can’t believe someone, we are incredulous, a credo (pronounce kreedo) is a set of beliefs, and something is credible when it is believable!

4. MISS means send
A missive is a letter that you send, to be remiss in your duty means that we have to send you back to do it again, and an emission is like car exhaust, that is sent out!

5. CIDE means kill
To kill a king is regicide, to kill a human is homicide, and to kill a brother is fratricide!

6. DICT means say
An edict is an official public statement that has the force of law, a malediction is a curse, and to contradict is to say something against another’s statement.

7. BELL means war.
A rebellion is a war of opposition, the adjective bellicose means extremely warlike, and belligerent is another word that mans warlike and hostile.

8. Caesar’s Analogy Regicide : Homicide:: Missive : Communication
Incredulous : Gullible
Friendly : Furious
Malediction : Blessing

9. Advanced Word : Bellicose
The adjective bellicose, from the Latin bellicosus, contains the stems bell (war) and ose (full of). Bellicose means really warlike, inclined to start quarrels or wars.
A good synonym for bellicose is the adjective pugnacious, which means wanting to fight.