Bastion-Burlesque Flashcards
Beget
To give birth to
To create
To lead to
To cause
Bastion
Stronghold
Fortress
Fortified place
Belabor
To go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent
Beleaguer
To surround
To besiege
To harass
Belie
To give false impression of
To contradict
Belittle
To make to seem little
To put someone down
Belligerent
Combative
Quarrelsome
Waging war
Bemused
Confused
Bewildered
Benefactor
One who provides help, especially in the form of a gift or donation
Benevolent
Generous
Kind
Doing good deeds
Benign
Gentle
Not harmful
Kind
Mild
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 in plants
Anything that injures or destroys
Blithe
Carefree
Cheerful
Bourgeois
Middle class, usually in a pejorative sense
Boringly conventional
Bovine
Cow related
Cowlike
Brevity
Briefness
Broach
To open a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject
Bucolic
Charmingly rural
Rustic
Countrylike
Bureaucracy
A system if government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rules
Red-tapey
Burgeon
To expand
To flourish
Burlesque
A ludicrous, mocking, lewd imitation
