B Flashcards
Bucolic
Relating to pleasant aspects of countryside Rural or rustic in nature Rustic Rural Pastoral Agrarian Idyllic Agrestic
Antonym—
Urban
Bumbling
Incompetent
Acting in confused or ineffectual way
Lacking physical movement skills, especially with hands
Benign
Gentle Kindly Friendly Warm Approachable Tender
Bauble
A small, inexpensive trinket (earring)
Baleful
Having harmful or destructive effect Threatening Malignant Menacing Hostile
Bland
Dull
Boring
Tedious
Tasteless
Banal
Used to often to be considered thoughtful Cliche Platitude Hackneyed Trite
Boon
Something that is helpful
Blessing
Very close and convivial
Brazen
Unrestrained by convention or propriety Bold Shameless Impudent Impertinent Presumptuous
Enduring an embarrassing or difficult situation with apparent confidence and lack of shame
Bootleg
Smuggle
Make, sell, transport illegally
Bovine
Relating to or affecting cattle
Animalof cattle group
Bombastic
High sounding but with little meaning Pompous Ranting Turgid Blathering Periphrastic
Boor
Rough and bad mannered person
Rude
Booty
Valuable stolen goods, especially those seized in war Loot Pillage Plunder Prize Trophy
Barrage
Artillery bombardment over an area Bombardment Gunfire Cannonade Overwhelming attack of words or blows
Balk
To stop short or refuse to proceed
Eschew
Resist
Belligerent
Aggressive Hostile Pugnacious Choleric Truculent Antagonist
Bequest
Legacy
Inheritance
Endowment
Brouhaha
An uproar
Hubbub
Bedlam
A scene of noise uproar or confusion
Benighted
Unenlightened
Being in a state of intellectual darkness
Ignorant
Bogus
Not genuine or true
Spurious
Fraudulent
Feigned
Bevy
A large group of people or things of similar kind
Assemblage
Troop
Troupe
Battery
Unlawful beating of a person