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benighted; The Benighted girl was waiting for her dead parents to find her.

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in a state of pitiful or contemptible intellectual or moral ignorance, typically owing to a lack of opportunity:

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belabor; The essay Belabored the obvious.

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argue or elaborate (a subject) in excessive detail:

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belittle
Jordin mocked me to make me feel BELITTLED

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make someone feel small, put them down

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belie
the evidence BELIES his claims

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show something to be false

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