agreement

• corpus

• sally

• viable

• pact

elasticity

• resilience

• salient

• repugnance

• vitality

boxer

• mortician

• appeaser

• pugilist

• pacifist

before the war

• post-helium

• ante•bellum

• interlude

• prelude

capable of being wounded or dying

• mortal

• immortal

• salient

• desultory

pugnacity means

• animation

• inclination or urge to fight

• despair or hopeless over loss

• loss of memory

A person who reads in a desultory way, literally, reads by ___________ from place to place--that is, in a disconnected, random, or unmethodical way.

• pugnacious

• methodical

• sagacious

• leaping

An assault is, literally, __________ toward--that is, a violent attack on someone or something.

• leaping

• rolling

• leaning

A BELLIGERENT attitude is, literally, one which is "given or prone to waging _______."

• peace

• war

• a fist fight

• resolution

definition: a legal agreement by which a bank or other creditor lends money at interest in exchange for taking title of the debtor's property...literally death-pledge.

• compact

• insult

• vital

• mortgage