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Week 3 words 81-110
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| audacious | fearlessly, often recklessly bold and daring; spirited, original |
| augur | someone or something that predicts the future; omen |
| avail | to be of use or advantage to; help |
| avarice | immoderate desire for wealth; greed |
| avowal | frank admission or acknowledgement |
| baize | an often bright-green cotton or woolen material napped to imitate felt and used chiefly as a cover for gaming tables |
| balk | stop short and refuse to go on |
| barbarian | member of a people considered by those of another nation or group to have a primitive civilization |
| bard | poet, especially of lyric voice |
| beatnik | person whose behavior, views and often style of dress are pointedly unconventional |
| beguile | to deceive; to distract attention; to amuse with charm |
| belligerent | inclined or eager to fight; aggressive or hostile; of or pertaining to warfare |
| bemuse | to cause to be bewildered; to confuse |
| berate | rebuke or scold angrily at length |
| blatant | unpleasantly loud and noisy; totally or offensively conspicuous or obtrusive |
| bout | contest between antagonists; match; period of time spent in a particular way |
| bowel | the intestine |
| bureaucrat | official who is rigidly devoted to the details of the administrative process |
| burlesque | literary or dramatic work that ridicules a subject either by presenting a solemn |