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Bellicose: Becca Jaskot


 * > Name: || Becca Jaskot ||
 * > Word: || Bellicose ||
 * > Source: || //The Savage Wars of Peace//, Max Boot, "Butcher and Bolt", Pepper and Pirates, 47 ||
 * > Appropriate Definition: || Noun, favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars. ||
 * > Definition URL: || http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bellicose ||
 * > Context Sentences: || "They discovered a town of some 4,000 people defended by a few ramshackle forts. Captain Jack Downes, a **bellicose** sort who had served as Porter's first "luff" (lieutenant) during the mission to Marquesas, had heard in Cape Town, South Africa, that the Sumatrans were not to be trusted. So he decided to ignore the first part of his orders - to investigate Captain Endicott's account and, if it was found to be accurate, "demand . . . restitution."(Boot 45)" ||

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