B Flashcards
Banal
Unoriginal; ordinary
Bane
Poison; torment; cause of harm
Bastion
Stronghold; fortress; a fortified place
Beget
To give birth to; to create; to lead to; to cause
Belabor
To go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent
Beleaguer
Too surround; to besiege; to harass
Belie
To give a false impression of; to contradict
Belittle
To make to seem little; to put someone down
Belligerent
Combative; quarrelsome; waging war
Bemused
Confused; bewildered
Benefactor
One who provides help, especially in the form of a gift or donation
Benevolent
Generous; kind; doing good deeds
Benign
Gentle; not harmful; kind; mild
Bequest
Something left to someone in a will
Bereaved
Deprived or left desolate, especially through death
Beset
To harass; to surround
Blasphemy
Irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity
Blatant
Unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring
Blight
A disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys
Blithe
Carefree; cheerful
Bourgeois
Middle class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional
Bovine
Cow related; cow-like
Brevity
Briefness
Broach
To open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject
Bucolic
Charmingly rural; rustic; countrylike
Bureaucracy
A system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, especially one rune according to inflexible and inefficient rules; any large administrative system characterized by inefficiency, lots of rules, and red tape
Burgeon
To expand; to flourish
Burlesque
A ludicrous, mocking, led imitation
Bawdy
Dealing with sexual matters in a comical way
