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Word List 3
ELA Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Belligerent | waging war; Inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness |
| Bemuse | To puzzle, distract, absorb |
| Benefactor | A person who has given financial help; Patron |
| Beneficent | Doing or producing good; beneficial |
| Beneficiary | One that benefits from something |
| Benevolent | Kindly; Charitable |
| Benign | Of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life; Showing kindness and gentleness; Good natured; Kindly |
| Bereave | To deprive; dispossess |
| Beset | To set or stud with or as if with ornaments; To harass from all directoins |
| Besiege | To overwhelm, harass, or beset |
| Bestow | To give or present |
| Betray | To deliver to an enemy by treachery; To reveal |
| Bewilder | To confuse |
| Bias | Bent, tendency, prejudice; To give a settled and often prejudiced outlook to |
| Bibliomania | Extreme preoccupation with collecting books |
| Bilateral | Having two sides; Affecting reciprocally two nations or parties |
| Bilingual | Of two languages |
| Billion | One thousand million |
| Birthright | A right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth |
| Bizarre | Grotesque; Fantastic |
| Blackmail | Payment extorted by threatening |
| Blameworthy | Deserving Blame |
| Bland | Pleasantly Smooth; Insipid |
| Blatant | Brazen; Completely obvious; Conspicuous; Showy |
| Blazing | Of outstanding power, speed, heat, or intesity |
| Bleach | To cause something to become white |
| Blighted | Withered |
| Blindness | Loss of Sight |
| Blissful | Extremely happy |
| Blithe | Cheerful; Carefree |
| Blockbuster | A very large high-explosive bomb |
| Blueprint | Photographic print of building plans; Detailed plan |
| Bluff | Pretence of strength; High cliff |
| Blur | Anything indistinct or hazy; To make or become hazy or indistinct |
| Boastfulness | The act or an instance of boasting |
| Boisterous | Noisy and unruly; Violent |
| Bolster | Cushion or pillow; To support, strengthen, or reinforce |
| Bom | |
| Bombastic | Full of important-sounding insincere words with little meaning |
| Bonanza | An exceptionally large and rich mineral deposti |
| Boon | A timely blessing or benefit |
| Boost | To make higher; To promote the cause or interest; To raise by a puch |
| Bootless | Without advantage or benefit; Useless |
| Boredom | The state of being weary; Something boring |
| Boundless | Having no boundaries |
| Bowlegged | a condition in which the knees stay wide apart when a person stands with the feet and ankles together |
| Braggart | The person who brags |
| Braid | To form into a braid, plait |
| Brassy | Brazen; Insolent |
| Bravado | Pretended courage |
| Brazen | Showing no shame; Impudent |
| Breach | To make a breaching; To break, violate; A broken or torn |
| Breed | To produce offspring by hatching or gestation; To bring up; Class; Kind |
| Brevity | Shortness of duration |
| Brilliant | Striking distinctive; Glorious; Magnificent |
| Brink | The edge of a steep place; Verge; Border |
| Briny | Of, relating to, or resembling brine or the sea; Salty |
| Brook | A small stream |
| Brownish | Having a brown tinge; slightly brown |
| Brusqueness | Abruptness; Candor |
| Brutality | The quality or state of being brutal; A brutal act or course of action |
| Brute | Beast; A person who is brutal |
| Buckle | To fasten or join with a buckle |
| Bulky | Large of its kind; Corpulent |
| Bumper | Unusually large; A device for absorbing shock or preventing damage |
| Buoyant | Showing buoyancy; Cheerful |
| Burdensome | Imposing or constituting a burden |
| Burgeon | To grow rapidly; Proliferate |
| Burning | Being on fire; Ardent; Intense |
| Burst | To break open, apart or into pieces; To emerge or spring suddenly |
| Buttress | A projecting structure built against a wall to support or reinforce it |
| Bygone | Gone by |
| Byproduct | Side effect |
| Byzantine | Complicated |
| Cabinet | A case or cupboard usually having doors and shelves; Group of the most important government ministers |
| Cocophonous | Marked by cacophony |
| Calamity | Any extreme misfortune |
| Calculable | Subject ot or ascertainable by calculation; That may be counted on |
| Callous | Thick and hardened; Lacking pity; Unfeeling |
| Calumny | A false and malicious statement |
| Camaraderie | a spirit of friendly good-fellowship |
| Candid | Not hiding one's thoughts |
| Candor | Frankness |
| Cannily | In a way that is intelligent, careful and shows good judgement |
| Canny | Shrewd and careful |
| Cantankerous | Bad tempered; Quarrelsome |
| Capitulate | To surrender conditoinally |
| Capricious | Erratic; Fighty |
| Captious | Quick to find fault; Carping |
| Captivating | Very attractive and interesting, in a way that holds your attention |
| Capture | To take as a prisoner; To take or win |
| Cardiac | Of, relating to, situated near, or acting on the heart |
| Cardinal | Of basic importance |
| Caricature | Art that has the qualities of caricature |
| Carnage | Bloody and extensive slaughter |
| Carnivorous | Flesh-Eating |
| Carve | To shape by cutting, chipping, and hewing; To slice |
| Cast | Troupe; To throw; To five a shape to a substance by pouring in liquid into a mold |
| Caste | Class distinction |
| Castigate | To punish or rebuke severely |
| Catalyze | To bring About; To inspire |
| Catastrophe | Sudden great disaster |
| Category | A class or division in a scheme of classification |
| Cater | To provide food and services |
| Caterpillar | The elongated wormlike larva of a butterfly or moth |
| Causal | Implying a cause and effect relatoinship |
| Caustic | Corrosive; Biting; Sarcastic |
| Cautionary | Giving advice or a warning |
| Cautious | marked by or given to caution |
| Cavil | To object when there is little reason to do so; Quibble |
| Cavity | A hollow place in a tooth |
| Celestial | Of or in the sky or universe |
| Celibate | An unmarried person |
| Cellular | Of, relating to, or consisting of cells; Containing cavities |
| Censorious | Marked by or given to censure |
| Censure | A judgment involving condemnation |
| Centralizatoin | Concentration |
| Ceramic | Made of clay and permanently hardened by heat; The making of pots or tiles by shaping pieces of clay and baking them |
| Cerebral | Of the brain; Of the intellect rather than the emotions |
| Ceremonious | Very formal |
| Certainty | Thing that is certain |
| Certitude | Certainty of act or event |
| Cessation | A short pause or a stop |
| Chafe | To warm by rubbing; To annoy |
| Chagrin | A feeling of annoyance because one has been disappointed |
| Chancy | Uncertain in outcome or prospect, occurring by chance |
| Chantey | A song sung by sailors in rhythm with their work |
| Chaotic | In a state of complete disorder and cofusion |
| Characteristic | Typical of a particular person, place, or thing |
| Characterize | To describe the character or quality of |
| Charismatic | Having, exhibiting, or based on charisma or charisma; He has rizz |
| Charitable | Full of love for and goodwill toward others; Liberal in benefactions to the needy |
| Charlatan | Fake; Mountebank; Quack |
| Chart | Map; A sheet; To make a map or chart |
| Charter | Special privilege or immunity |
| Chary | Careful; Cautious |
| Chastisement | Punishment |
| Chip | Shard; Fragment |
| Chivalrous | Of, relating to, or characteristic of chivalry and knight errantry; gallant; Courteous |
| Choppy | Rough with small waves; Changeable; Variable |
| Chorale | A hymn or psalm sung to a traditional or composed melody in church; Chorus; Choir |
| Chromatic | Having colour or colours |
| Chromosome | Threadlike structures made of protein and a single molecule of DNA that serve to carry the genomic information from cell to cell |
| Chranological | Of, relating to, or arranged in or according to the order of time |
| Chubby | Plump |
| Circuitous | Roundabout; Indirect; Devious |
| Circulate | To move around; To distribute |
| Circulation | Going around continuously; The average number of copies of a publication sold over a given period. |
| Circumlocution | A roundabout, lengthy way of expressing something |
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