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Vocab 3

TermDefinition
Banal stale from overuse; trite
Bane Source of bad luck or harm; curse
Baroque extravagant
Bellicose looking for a fight; aggresive
Bellweather a leader
Benign gentle
Beset to trouble
Bias diagonal line; prejudice or personal outlook; bent
Bicker to quarrel over little things; quibble
Bigot hypocrite; intolerant person who thinks his way is the only way
Bilk to cheat or defraud
Blasphemy profanity
Blatant embarrassingly obvious
Blithe cheerful
Boor person lacking manners or sensitivity; clod
Bourgeois middle class
Bovine cowlike; patient and slow-moving; dull or placid
Brackish rather salty; unappealing
Brandish to wave about in a threatening way; to swing (a weapon) back and forth; to flourish with a flair
Brigand bandit or thief (used in a less negative sense)
Brusque abrupt
Bucolic referring to the country; rustic
Bumptious egotistic
Buoyant lighthearted
Burlesque a literary or dramatic work making fun or ridiculing by comic exaggeration; a mockery or caricature
Buttress (n) a support that gives stability and strength
Buttress (v) to shore up
Cacophony horrible sound; harsh
Cajole to beg
Caliber moral or mental worth; quality; diameter of a projectile or bore of the gun
Calumny malicious
Candid open and honest; fair or free of bias; frank
Cant (n) hypocritical talk; dialect of a particular group; jargon; trite talk
Cant (v) to tilt or slant at an angle
Cantankerous grumpy
Canvass to do a survey; solicit votes
Capitulate to give in
Capricious not steady or constant; changing at a whim
Cptious overly critical
Carnage slaughter or massacre
Carp to nitpick; find fault in a petty manner
Cathartic something that cleans or purges; a purifier
Caustic biting or corrosive; incisive
Cavil to object in a trivial or unimportant way; to find fault in a captious way
Chagrin embarrassment; unhappiness brought upon by humiliation
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