B List Vocabulary

Question 1

failure to complete something

Answer 1

balk

Question 2

lacking originality, freshness; ordinary

Answer 2

banal

Question 3

cause of great distress/ruin

Answer 3

bane

Question 4

overdone sentimentality; falsely

Answer 4

bathos

Question 5

an ancient punishment in which the soles of the feet are beaten

Answer 5

bastinado

Question 6

to harass, torment, plague

Answer 6

bedevil

Question 7

charming or enchanting in a fascinating/mysterious way

Answer 7

beguiling (n.: beguile)

Question 8

something big/significant

Answer 8

behemoth

Question 9

a finer spirit; an intellectually gifted person

Answer 9

belesprit

Question 10

to conceal/cover/deceive

Answer 10

belie

Question 11

late 19th century to WWI in England

Answer 11

belle époque

Question 12

a woman excelling in both beauty and goodness

Answer 12

bellibone

Question 13

favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars

Answer 13

bellicose

Question 14

sad from having lost something

Answer 14

bereft

Question 15

a little trinket that is valuable and rare

Answer 15

bibelot

Question 16

apathetic to pleasure or excitement as a result of excessive indulgence or enjoyment

Answer 16

blasé

Question 17

to carry out valueless or extremely trivial work in order to convey the impression of industriousness or merely appearing busy

Answer 17

boondoggie

Question 18

middle class

Answer 18

bourgeois

Question 19

censor

Answer 19

bowdlerize

Question 20

enthusiastic vigor, vitality

Answer 20

brio

Question 21

gigantic (not flattering); big and simple

Answer 21

Brobdingnagian

Question 22

claptrap, balderdash, nonsense; a showy but insincere speech made merely to attempt to impress the audience, but lacking in real substance

Answer 22

bunkum

Question 23

2nd rate, rookie

Answer 23

bush league