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Enrich Your Vocabulary
"B" | Bacchanal | orgy, drunkenly festive | | Badger | to pester | | Badinage | banter, teasing conversation | | Baffle | to frustrate or unable to understand | | Bagatelle | nonentity, trifle | | Baleful | hostile, malignant, harmful with evil intentions | | Balk | hesitate, refuse, shirk, prevent | | Banal | trite, overly common | | Bandanna | large, bright-colored handkerchief | | Bandy | discuss lightly | | Bane | poison, nuisance, something causing ruin | | Banter | to tease playfully and in good humor | | Barb | sharp projection from fishhook | | Bard | poet | | Baroque | ornate | | Barrage | a lot of questions or criticism | | Barter | to give in exchange rather than paying money | | Bask | take pleasure in, sun | | Bassoon | reed instrument of the woodwind family | | Bastion | fort, fortification, stronghold | | Bate | let down, restrain | | Bauble | A trinket, trifle | | Bawdy | indecent, obscene | | Beatific | supremely happy, angelic, saintly | | Beatitude | state of bliss | | Bedizen | dress with vulgar finery | | Bedraggle | wet thoroughly | | Befuddle | confuse thoroughly | | Begrudge | resent, envy | | Beguile | deceive, seduce, mislead | | Behemoth | monster, huge creature | | Beholden | in debt | | Behoove | to be fit, to be right | | Beleaguer | besiege, to harass, plague | | Benighted | UN enlightened | | Benignant | Benevolent in feeling, character | | Benison | Blessing | | Berate | to scold harshly | | Bereavement | state of being deprived of something valuable or beloved | | Bereft | deprived of | | Beset | harass, surround | | Besmirch | slander, sully | | Bestial | beast-like, brutal | | Bestow | to give as a gift, grant | | Bête noire | aversion | | Betrothal | Engagement to marry | | Bevy | group | | Bibulous | Fond of drinking | | Bicameral | having two legislative branches | | Bicker | quarrel, to have a petty argument | | Bifurcated | divided into two branches, forked | | Bigotry | discrimination, prejudice | | Bilious | ill-tempered | | Bilk | swindle, cheat, defraud | | Bivouac | encampment | | Blanch | bleach, whiten, to take the color out | | Blandish | to coax with flattering, grovel | | Blasé | bored with life | | Blasphemous | profane, impious | | Blatant | glaring, obvious, showy | | Blazon | print or decorate something in a very noticeable way | | Blight | decay, afflict, destroy | | Blithe | Joyful, cheerful, or without appropriate thought | | Bludgeon | to hit someone several times with a heavy object | | Blurt | to say something suddenly and without thinking, especially when you are excited or nervous | | Bode | portend | | Bogus | forged, false | | Bolster | to support or make something strong | | Bombast | pompous speech | | Boorish | Rude | | Bouillon | clear beef soup | | Bountiful | abundant, plentiful | | Bourgeois | middle class | | Bowdlerize | to expurgate in editing | | Brackish | salty | | Braggadocio | someone who boasts | | Brazen | bold, shameless, impudent | | Brazier | an open pan or basin for holding live coals | | Breach | breaking of a rule, agreement, or law | | Brindled | tawny or grayish with streaks or spots | | Brittle | Fragile | | broach | bring up a topic of conversation | | Brocade | rich, gaudy fabric | | Brooch | a piece of jewelry for women which is fastened onto clothes with a pin | | brusque | curt, rough and abrupt in manner | | Bucolic | rustic | | Buffoonery | coarse jokes, etc | | Bugaboo | bugbear, object of baseless terror | | bulwark | fortification | | Bumptious | full of offensive self-conceit | | Bungle | to do something wrong in a very careless or stupid way | | burgeon | sprout or flourish | | Burlesque | farce | | burly | husky, brawny | | Burnish | to make brilliant or shining | | Buskin | thick-soled half boot worn by actors of Greek tragedy | | Buxom | plump, vigorous, jolly |
(DOU 17082007)
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