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Bane

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Poison; torment; cause of harm

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Banal

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Unoriginal; ordinary

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Bastion

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Stronghold; fortress

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Beget

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To give birth to; to create; to cause

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Belabor

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To go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent

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Beleaguer

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To surround; to harass

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Belie

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To give a false impression of; to contradict

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Belligerent

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Combative; waging war

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Bemused

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Confused; bewildered

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Benign

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Gentle; not harmful; kind

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Bequest

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Something left to someone in a will

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Bereaved

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Deprived or left desolate, especially through death

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Beset

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To harass; to surround

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Blasphemy

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Irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity

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Blatant

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Unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring

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Blight

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Disease and plants; anything that injures or destroys

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Blithe

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Carefree; cheerful

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Bourgeois

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Middle-class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional

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Bovine

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Cow like

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Brevity

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Briefness

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Broach

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To open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject

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Bucolic

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Charmingly Rural; rustic; country like

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Bureaucracy

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System of government with inflexible and inefficient rules

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Burgeon

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To expand; to flourish

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Burlesque

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A ludicrous, mocking, lewd imitation