B Flashcards
Bane
Poison; torment; cause of harm
Banal
Unoriginal; ordinary
Bastion
Stronghold; fortress
Beget
To give birth to; to create; to cause
Belabor
To go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent
Beleaguer
To surround; to harass
Belie
To give a false impression of; to contradict
Belligerent
Combative; waging war
Bemused
Confused; bewildered
Benign
Gentle; not harmful; kind
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
Disease and plants; anything that injures or destroys
Blithe
Carefree; cheerful
Bourgeois
Middle-class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional
Bovine
Cow like
Brevity
Briefness
Broach
To open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject
Bucolic
Charmingly Rural; rustic; country like
Bureaucracy
System of government with inflexible and inefficient rules
Burgeon
To expand; to flourish
Burlesque
A ludicrous, mocking, lewd imitation
