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Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bluster | blow in heavy gusts; threaten emptily; bully |
| Brazen | insolent |
| Breach | breaking of contract or duty; fissure; gap |
| Bravado | swagger; assumed air of defiance |
| Brandish | wave around; flourish |
| Bristling | rising like bristles; showing irritation |
| Brindled | tawny or greyish with streaks or spots |
| Boycott | refrain from buying or using |
| Breadth | width; extent |
| Bovine | cowlike; placid and dull |
| Boon | blessing; benefit |
| Buttress | support; prop up |
| Betroth | become engaged to marry |
| Biennial | every two years |
| Braggadocio | boasting |
| Brevity | conciseness |
| Buffoonery | clowning |
| Bungle | spoil by clumsy behavior |
| Bureaucracy | government by bureaus |
| Buccaneer | pirate |
| Browbeat | bully' intimidate |
| Brooch | Ornamental clasp |
| Brook | tolerate; endure |
| Bizzare | fantastic; violently contrasting |
| Blasphemous | profane; impious |
| Blandishment | flattery |
| Bland | mild, soothing |
| Blare | loud, harsh roar or screech; dazzling blaze of light |
| Billowing | swelling out in waves; surging |
| Bluff | pretense (of strenght); deception; high cliff |
| Bludgeon | club; heavy-headed weapon |
| Blowhard | talkative boaster |
| Bloated | swollen or puffed as with water or air |
| Bleak | cold; cheerless |
| Blighted | suffering from a disease; destroyed |
| Blunder | error |
| Blase | bored with pleasure or dissipation |
| Bivouac | temporary encampment |
| Blatant | extremely obvious; loudly offensive |
| Buffet | slap; batter; knock about |
| Blithe | gay; joyous; careless |
| Brochure | pamphlet |
| Bucolic | rustic; pastoral |
| Buoyant | able to float; cleerful and optimistic |
| Blanch | bleach; whitten |
| Bilk | swindle; cheat |
| Blandish | cajole; coax with flattery |
| Berate | scold strongly |
| Bereft | deprived of; lacking |
| Brunt | main impact or shock |
| Bountiful | generous; showing bounty |
| Bestial | beast like; brutal; inhuman |
| Boorish | rude; insentive |
| Bowdlerize | expurgate |
| Bourgeois | middle class; selfishly materialistic; dully conventional |
| Betoken | signify; indicate |
| Bouillon | clear beef soup |
| Beseech | beg; plead with |
| Brusque | blunt; abrupt |
| Broach | open up |
| Brocade | rich; figured fabric |
| Brittle | easily broken; difficult |
| Bugaboo | bugbear; object of baseless terror |
| Browse | graze; skim or glance at casually |
| Bulwark | earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends |
| Bullion | gold and silver in the form of bars |