Vocab B

Question 1

Harmful

Answer 1

Baleful

Question 2

Commonplace, uninteresting

Answer 2

Banal

Question 3

cause of trouble, misery

Answer 3

Bane

Question 4

to deceive or cheat through cunning

Answer 4

Beguile

Question 5

to give a false impression, misrepresent

Answer 5

Belie

Question 6

belligerent, quarrelsome, eager to make war

Answer 6

Bellicose

Question 7

Large group or assemblage

Answer 7

Bevy

Question 8

to deceive or defraud; to swindle, cheat, especially to evade paying one’s debts

Answer 8

Bilk

Question 9

contemptuous or irreverent acts, utterances, attitudes or writings against God or other things considered sacred;

Answer 9

Blasphemy

Question 10

completely obvious, not attempting to conceal in any way.

Answer 10

Blatant

Question 11

plant disease that causes the affected parts to wilt and die

Answer 11

Blight

Question 12

light-hearted, casual, and carefree.

Answer 12

Blithe

Question 13

loud, noisy, and lacking restraint or discipline

Answer 13

Boisterous

Question 14

support or prop up

Answer 14

Bolster

Question 15

speaking pompously, with inflated self-importance

Answer 15

Bombastic

Question 16

crude, offensive, ill-mannered person

Answer 16

Boor

Question 17

to bring up, introduce, in order to begin a discussion

Answer 17

Broach

Question 17

false courage, a show of pretended bravery

Answer 17

Bravado

Question 18

arrogant, conceited.

Answer 18

Bumptious

Question 19

able to float , light-hearted, cheerful.

Answer 19

Buoyant

Question 20

to begin to grow and flourish; to begin to sprout, grow new buds, blossom

Answer 20

Burgeon

Question 21

to polish, rub to a shine

Answer 21

Burnish