Words beginning with B

Question 1

Baleful

Answer 1

Exerts an evil influence or foreshadows evil

Question 2

Baneful

Answer 2

Really poisonous or deadly

Question 3

Barrister

Answer 3

Lawyer

What do barristers and sperm have in common? Both have one in a million chance of turning out human.

Question 4

Bawdy

Answer 4

Obscene; coarse; humorous

Many bawdy jokes have to do with certain body parts.

Question 5

Beatific

Answer 5

Displaying or implementing joy

“Be terrific,” said Adolf Hitler with a beatific smile.

Question 6

Begrudge

Answer 6

To envy; to resent

To be holding a grudge for so long against me means that you must begrudge me my happy life.

Question 7

Beguile

Answer 7

Trick

The (evil testing) serpent beguiled me and I did eat the apple.

Question 8

Belated

Answer 8

Delayed; late

We sent a belated birthday present and in return got a month-old piece of birthday cake.

Question 9

Bellicose

Answer 9

Violent; warlike

You’ll know your sitting next to a bellicose person if during the test his sharpened number 2 pencil into your stomach goes.

Question 10

Benevolent

Answer 10

Kind

Superman may be the benevolent protector of the world, but have you seen he wears his underwear outside his pants?

Question 11

Berate

Answer 11

To scold severely

Question 12

Bereft

Answer 12

Lacking something needed

Question 13

Betroth

Answer 13

To become engaged

She discovered that he want wearing a tuxedo— she was really betrothed to a penguin.

Question 14

Biennial

Answer 14

Every two years

Question 15

Bland

Answer 15

Not stimulating; dull

Question 16

Blandishment

Answer 16

Flattery

The sycophants obsequiously lavished me with blandishments.

Question 17

Blighted

Answer 17

Ruined; destroyed; withered

When much of California was blighted by fires, the former governor tried to drown his feelings of hopelessness in Bud Light.

Question 18

Boisterous

Answer 18

Rowdy

We have male cheerleaders at out school. When they get in front of the crowd , those boys stir us up until we’re boisterous.

Question 19

Bombastic

Answer 19

Grandiloquent in speech or writing

At the end of his bombastic speech, the self-satisfied tyrant received a bomb basket as a parting gift.

Question 20

Braggadocio

Answer 20

Cockiness; a braggart

Question 21

Brevity

Answer 21

Briefness

When Janet had a 20-page paper due, but wanted to go out, her friends suggested, “you can write the paper with great brevity and brave a D.

Question 22

Brusque

Answer 22

Brief; curt; gruff; discourteous

Question 23

Bucolic

Answer 23

Pastoral; typical of farms and of rural life

The scene was bucolic.
We started to frolic.
In our feet so bare,
Whoops! The cow chips were there.

Question 24

Bumptious

Answer 24

Self-assertive

Question 25

Burgeon

Answer 25

To grow; sprout; flourish

Question 26

Burnish

Answer 26

To polish

Question 27

Bacchanalian

Answer 27

Orgiastic; like a wild drunken revelry

Bacchus was the Roman god of wine, and the Bacchanalia was the festival devoted to him.