B Vocab

Question 1

bulwark

Answer 1

1. a strong support or protection 2.ocean wall

Question 2

beguile

Answer 2

to trick or deceive, divert

Question 3

behest

Answer 3

1. order, command 2.an urgent prompting

Question 4

beholden

Answer 4

being under obligation for a favor. (indebted)

Question 5

belabor

Answer 5

1. to talk about something for too long, repeat 2. to attack or criticize verbally.

Question 6

berate

Answer 6

to yell at someone, criticize loudly and angrily, scold.

Question 7

bevy

Answer 7

a large group of people or things

Question 8

bellicose

Answer 8

having a tendency to argue or fight

Question 9

benefactor

Answer 9

someone who helps another person by giving money

Question 10

benighted

Answer 10

having no knowledge or education

Question 11

benign

Answer 11

1. not causing death or serious injury 2. not causing harm or damage 3. gentle, kind

Question 12

blatant

Answer 12

1. very obvious and offensive 2.noisy in a vulgar or offensive manner. 3.competely obvious

Question 13

blasphemous

Answer 13

1. lacking respect or seriousness 2. to treat with abuse

Question 14

blight

Answer 14

1. a disease to injury of pants marked by formation of harm, withering and death of parts 2. an organism that causes blight 3. something that destroys

Question 15

bluster

Answer 15

1. to talk with noisy swaggering threats 2.to blow in stormy noisy gusts. 3.boast

Question 16

boisterous

Answer 16

noisy, disorderly

Question 17

bona fide

Answer 17

1. made in good faith 2.sincere 3.genuine

Question 18

bureaucrat

Answer 18

part of a body of nonelective government officials (politician)

Question 19

brandish

Answer 19

1. to shake or wave ( as a weapon) 2. to swing something angrily

Question 20

banal

Answer 20

lacking originality

Question 21

browbeat

Answer 21

intimidate, bully

Question 22

brig

Answer 22

the prison of a ship

Question 23

brusque

Answer 23

talking or behaving in a very direct brief and unfriendly way