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bellicose warlike in nature antebellum occurring before a war belligerence warlike mood or attitude enamored fond of; feeling love towards amiable good-natured; cheerful amicable not bitter of hostile; friendly antagonize to act hostile towards; provoke protagonist the central character in a work of literature antagonist one who is hostile towards; one who opposes philosophical calm and wise; reasonable philanthropy charitable donation to public causes bibliophile one who loves books impediment something that gets in the way; obstacle expedient providing results quickly; practical and effective pedestrian lacking excitement; ordinary and dull pedant one possessing abundant knowledge of minor, often uninteresting, things pedagogue a teacher, especially one who is dull and narrow-minded travesty a bad imitation of; a perversion of vested significant to one's own profit or well-being vestment clothing worn to symbolize religious or political authority divest to strip or remove a title or position of authority corporeal having to do with the body corpulent extremely fat; obese incorporate to bring together feature, idea, or elements uniform the same all the way through; consistent unison in one voice unanimous showing complete agreement monologue a speech made by a sing person monopolize to use or take so as to prevent others from using or taking monogamy marriage to only one person at a time monolithic exactly the same throughout; lacking any diversity homonym a work spelled exactly like another word, but having a different meaning homogenized forced to be exactly the same equitable fair; just equilibrium balance; steadiness iniquity injustice; wrong or wicked action or situation