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B words
Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Bluster | blow in heavy gusts; threaten emptily; bully |
Brazen | insolent |
Breach | breaking of contract or duty; fissure; gap |
Bravado | swagger; assumed air of defiance |
Brandish | wave around; flourish |
Bristling | rising like bristles; showing irritation |
Brindled | tawny or greyish with streaks or spots |
Boycott | refrain from buying or using |
Breadth | width; extent |
Bovine | cowlike; placid and dull |
Boon | blessing; benefit |
Buttress | support; prop up |
Betroth | become engaged to marry |
Biennial | every two years |
Braggadocio | boasting |
Brevity | conciseness |
Buffoonery | clowning |
Bungle | spoil by clumsy behavior |
Bureaucracy | government by bureaus |
Buccaneer | pirate |
Browbeat | bully' intimidate |
Brooch | Ornamental clasp |
Brook | tolerate; endure |
Bizzare | fantastic; violently contrasting |
Blasphemous | profane; impious |
Blandishment | flattery |
Bland | mild, soothing |
Blare | loud, harsh roar or screech; dazzling blaze of light |
Billowing | swelling out in waves; surging |
Bluff | pretense (of strenght); deception; high cliff |
Bludgeon | club; heavy-headed weapon |
Blowhard | talkative boaster |
Bloated | swollen or puffed as with water or air |
Bleak | cold; cheerless |
Blighted | suffering from a disease; destroyed |
Blunder | error |
Blase | bored with pleasure or dissipation |
Bivouac | temporary encampment |
Blatant | extremely obvious; loudly offensive |
Buffet | slap; batter; knock about |
Blithe | gay; joyous; careless |
Brochure | pamphlet |
Bucolic | rustic; pastoral |
Buoyant | able to float; cleerful and optimistic |
Blanch | bleach; whitten |
Bilk | swindle; cheat |
Blandish | cajole; coax with flattery |
Berate | scold strongly |
Bereft | deprived of; lacking |
Brunt | main impact or shock |
Bountiful | generous; showing bounty |
Bestial | beast like; brutal; inhuman |
Boorish | rude; insentive |
Bowdlerize | expurgate |
Bourgeois | middle class; selfishly materialistic; dully conventional |
Betoken | signify; indicate |
Bouillon | clear beef soup |
Beseech | beg; plead with |
Brusque | blunt; abrupt |
Broach | open up |
Brocade | rich; figured fabric |
Brittle | easily broken; difficult |
Bugaboo | bugbear; object of baseless terror |
Browse | graze; skim or glance at casually |
Bulwark | earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends |
Bullion | gold and silver in the form of bars |