Words beginning with B Flashcards
Baleful
Exerts an evil influence or foreshadows evil
Baneful
Really poisonous or deadly
Barrister
Lawyer
What do barristers and sperm have in common? Both have one in a million chance of turning out human.
Bawdy
Obscene; coarse; humorous
Many bawdy jokes have to do with certain body parts.
Beatific
Displaying or implementing joy
“Be terrific,” said Adolf Hitler with a beatific smile.
Begrudge
To envy; to resent
To be holding a grudge for so long against me means that you must begrudge me my happy life.
Beguile
Trick
The (evil testing) serpent beguiled me and I did eat the apple.
Belated
Delayed; late
We sent a belated birthday present and in return got a month-old piece of birthday cake.
Bellicose
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.
Benevolent
Kind
Superman may be the benevolent protector of the world, but have you seen he wears his underwear outside his pants?
Berate
To scold severely
Bereft
Lacking something needed
Betroth
To become engaged
She discovered that he want wearing a tuxedo— she was really betrothed to a penguin.
Biennial
Every two years
Bland
Not stimulating; dull
Blandishment
Flattery
The sycophants obsequiously lavished me with blandishments.
Blighted
Ruined; destroyed; withered
When much of California was blighted by fires, the former governor tried to drown his feelings of hopelessness in Bud Light.
Boisterous
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.
Bombastic
Grandiloquent in speech or writing
At the end of his bombastic speech, the self-satisfied tyrant received a bomb basket as a parting gift.
Braggadocio
Cockiness; a braggart
Brevity
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.
Brusque
Brief; curt; gruff; discourteous
Bucolic
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.
Bumptious
Self-assertive
Burgeon
To grow; sprout; flourish
Burnish
To polish
Bacchanalian
Orgiastic; like a wild drunken revelry
Bacchus was the Roman god of wine, and the Bacchanalia was the festival devoted to him.
