"B" Flashcards

(28 cards)

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Banal

A

Ordinary

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2
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Bane

A

Poison

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3
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Bastion

A

Fortress

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4
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Beget

A

To create

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5
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Belabor

A

To go over repeatedly

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6
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Beleaguer

A

To surround

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7
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Belie

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To give a false impression

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8
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Belittle

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To put somoene down

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9
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Belligerent

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Quarrelsome

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10
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Bemused

A

Confused

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11
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Benefactor

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One who provides help

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12
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Benevolent

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Kind

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13
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Benign

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Gentle

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14
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Bequest

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Something left to someone in a will

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15
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Bereaved

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Deprived

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Beset

17
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Blasphemy

A

An insult to something held sacred

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Blatant

19
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Blight

A

A disease in plants

20
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Blithe

21
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Bourgeois

22
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Bovine

23
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Brevity

24
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Broach

A

To open up a subject for discussion

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Bucolic
Charmingly rural
26
Bureaucracy
A system of government
27
Burgeon
To expand
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Burlesque
Mocking