1. Caesar’s English
Lesson Nine

2. Stem meaning examples
cred believe incredulous, credible, incredible, credit
miss send missive, remiss, emission
cide kill regicide, homicide, suicide
dict say contradict, edict, contradiction, dictator, dictionary
bell war rebellion, belligerent, bellicose,

3. CRED means believe
When we can’t believe someone, we are incredulous, a credo (pronounced 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.

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

9. Rebellion

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

11. Caesar’s Analogy Regicide : Homicide:: Regicide is a type of homicide.
Missive : Communication
Incredulous : Gullible
Friendly : Furious
Malediction : Blessing

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

13. 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.

14. Stem meaning examples
cred believe incredulous, credible, credit, credit card, incredible
miss send missive, remiss, dismiss, emission, mission, admission testing

15. Stem meaning examples
cide kill regicide, homicide, suicide, suicidal
dict say contradict, edict, dictator, dictionary
bell war rebellion, belligerent, bellicose