| anthropomorphic | not human |
| archetype | original model |
| bellicose | war eager to fight |
| dynasty | rulers same family |
| egregious | remarkale in a bad way |
| elegiac | tone expressing sorrow or lamentation |
| eponymous | a name or race or tribe or place that is inherited |
| eulogy | a speech or writing in a praise or a person or thing, honor in death |
| fealty | obligation or engagement to be faithful to a ruler |
| foreboding | warning |
| fratricide | person who kills there own brother |
| genealogy | a record or account of the ancesty and descent of a person |
| invocation | a prayer or speech in which one calls upon a deity or spirit for aid |
| internecine | mutually destructive or pertaining to conflict |
| loquacious | disposed to talk too much or freely |
| matriarchy | social system in which the the female or mother is the head |
| malefactor | a person who violates the law |
| munificence | the quality of being extremely liberal in giving or bestowing |
| pacify | to bring or restore |
| pagan | one of the people of the community professing a poltheistic religion |
| patronymic | derived from the name of the father or ancestor |