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back and forth
vacillating
oscillating
back away from what was said
backpedal
back them up
lend support
back-up plan
contingency
bad acts
indiscretions
transgressions
improprieties
bad at
inept
not well suited for
bad effects
adverse effects
bad idea
ill advised
inadvisable
bad luck
misfortune
bad mouth
throw aspersions on
deride
disparage
denigrate
bad quality
leaves much to be desired
bad situation
plight
predicament
bad smelling
putrid
rancid
bad taste
in poor form
bad tempered
irascible
cantankerous
bad timing
untimely
bad weather
inclement
badly conceived
misbegotten
bag of tricks
repertoire
balance
equilibrium
bare
austere
barely
scarcely
barely know her
we’re on short acquaintance
barely perceptible
liminal
bark is worse than his bite
he’s just blustering
based on
predicated on
basic instinct
primal urge
be discouraged
lose heart
be good enough
should suffice
be hospitable
extend hospitality
be offended by
take exception to
be optimistic
strike an optimistic tone
be quiet
keep your counsel
be seen as
constitute
beat around the bush
flutter round it
beaten badly
routed
become president
assumed office
become a victim of
fall victim to
become more accepted
gain currency with
become public
came to light
becomes
it rendered
before mentioned
aforementioned
beg
implore
begin again
resume
begin
commence
beginner
novice
beginning (are beginning)
incipient
emergent
beginning (the beginning)
the inception
the onset
the emergence
behave
conduct oneself
behavior
conventions
behind the scenes
the inner workings of
being attacked
beset upon
belief
notion
conviction
sentiment
tenet
believability
credence
plausibility
believable
plausible
believe
subscribe to
believe in
adhere to
beneficial
salutary
benefit
would profit by
besides
quite apart from
best
unparalleled
unrivaled
incomparable
best way to
how best to
betrayal
duplicity
better
preferable
between
among
between us
between you and me
biased
partisan
tendentious
biographical movie
biopic
birth
nascence
birthplace
provenance
biting
acerbic
bitter
acrid
bitterness
rancor
black sheep
pariah
blame
implicate
apportion blame
blaming yourself
self reproach
bland
insipid
blatant
overt
blend into
assimilitate
block
thwart
blood feud
vendetta
bluffing
posturing
boastful
vaunting
bodily
corporeal
bogug
without merit
bold
brazen
boldness
temerity
audacity
bombard
barrage
bond
a rapport
boos
a chorus of dispain
bored of (incorrect usage)
bored with
bored by
boredum
tedium
boring
tedious
mundane
born with
graced with
bossy
imperious
both
both of which
respectively
bothered by
encumbered by
burdened by
bottomless pit
abyss
brag
boast
brainwash
inculcate a sense of
brave
undaunted
break apart
fracture
disband
break open
breach
break up
fragment
brief
cursory
fleeting
briefly
in passing
brightness
luminosity
alive with
brimming with
bring about
engender
elicit
bring to life
animate
bring together
assemble
bring up for discussion
broach the subject
brings out
accents
broad range of
eclectic
broken down
derelict
in disrepair
brown-nosing
fawning
brush aside
dismiss
buffer
hedge against
built-in
inherent
built on
rests in part on
is predicated on
bullied
hectored
bum
indigent
bum-looking
unkempt
harried
bunch of
accumulation of
repository of
burden (a burden)
an encumbrance
burden (to burden)
to encumber
to weight heavy on
busy
preoccupied
absorbed in
busy thinking
pensive
busybody
a yenta
but
with the caveat
butt in
horn in
by chance
happenstance
by itself
intrinsically
in its own right
by the way
incidentally
by your own decision
by your own volition
of your own accord
busy place
swirl of activity
