Vocab B Flashcards

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Banal

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Lacking originality or freshness; ordinary

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Balk

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Failure to complete something

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Bane

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Cause of great distress

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Bathos

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Overdone sentimentality in a false way

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Bedevil

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To harass,torment,plague

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Beguiling

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Charming or enchanting in a fascinating/mysterious way

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Behemoth

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Something big/significant

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Belie

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To conceal/cover/deceive

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Belle Époque

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Late 19th century to WW1 England

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Bellicose

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Favoring or inclined to start quarrels or arguments or wars

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Bereft

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Sad from having lost something

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Bibelot

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A little trinket that is valuable and rare

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Blasé

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Apathetic to pleasure or excimer as a result of overindulgence

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Bourgeois

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Middle-class

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Bowdlerize

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To censor

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Brio

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Enthusiastic vigor or vitality

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Brobdingnagian

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Gigantic, big and simple

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Bush league

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2nd rate, rookie