Vocab B Flashcards
Banal
Lacking originality or freshness; ordinary
Balk
Failure to complete something
Bane
Cause of great distress
Bathos
Overdone sentimentality in a false way
Bedevil
To harass,torment,plague
Beguiling
Charming or enchanting in a fascinating/mysterious way
Behemoth
Something big/significant
Belie
To conceal/cover/deceive
Belle Époque
Late 19th century to WW1 England
Bellicose
Favoring or inclined to start quarrels or arguments or wars
Bereft
Sad from having lost something
Bibelot
A little trinket that is valuable and rare
Blasé
Apathetic to pleasure or excimer as a result of overindulgence
Bourgeois
Middle-class
Bowdlerize
To censor
Brio
Enthusiastic vigor or vitality
Brobdingnagian
Gigantic, big and simple
Bush league
2nd rate, rookie