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English Vocabulary
Words Start from Letter 'B'
- BANAL: Lacking in freshness, originality, or vigor
Sentence:
* Bored by his banal remarks.
Synonyms: common place, hackneyed, prosaic, trite, stereotyped, vapid
Antonyms: racy, original, vivid - BANEFUL (Noun: BANE: poison; source of harm): Destructive, poisonous
Sentence:
* A baneful effect, causing serious injury.
Synonyms: deleterious, pernicious, virulent, noxious, toxic
Antonym: beneficent - BANTER: Good-natured, teasing or ridicule
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* The two wits exchanged banter, to the amusement of the audience.
Synonyms: raillery, chaff - BATON: A stick or staff
Sentence:
* The conductor wielded his baton gracefully. - BELIE: To give a roles idea of
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* His gracious manner belled his evil purpose.
Synonym: misrepresent - BELLICOSE: Inclined to quarrel; warlike
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* His bellicose attitude often got John into fights.
Synonyms: pugnacious, contentious, disputatious
Antonyms: pacific, conciliatory - BELLIGERENT: Engaged in war
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* Two belligerent nations warring fiercely - BENEVOLENT: Kindly; charitable
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* Like a benevolent monarch, bestowing many favors.
Synonyms: benign, benignant, gracious, magnanimous
Antonyms: malevolent, malignant - BEREAVE: To deprive or leave desolate by loss
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* A widow just bereaved of her husband - BESMIRCH: To soil or dirty
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* Besmirched his opponent's good name with vile epithets.
Synonyms: stilly, defile, smirch, bespatter - BIASED: Prejudiced
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* A misled by a biased point of view.
Synonyms: bigoted, arbitrary, partial, partisan
Antonyms: disinterested, equitable - BIBLIOPHILE: A lover of books
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* The bibliophile fingered the old book fondly.
Antonym: bibliophobe - BIZARRE: Queer; unusual in appearance
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* Bizarre clothes, outlandish in the extreme.
Synonyms: odd, fantastic, grotesque, eccentric - BLAND: Gentle; polite; agreeable
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* A bland diet, without irritating foods.
Synonyms: mild, suave (affable or persuasive in manner), soothing, non-irritating
Antonyms: piquant, tart, racy, caustic, acrid, pungent - BLANDISHMENT: A flattering speech or act
Sentence:
* Attracted people by his blandishments. - BLEMISH:
(1) (Verb): To scar or spoil;
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* Bad associates blemished his character.
(2) (Noun): A disfigurement, defect
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* A character without a blemish. - BLIGHT: To ruin or decay
the rotting wheat.
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* Blighted by incessant rain.
Synonyms: wither, blast - BLITHE: Gay and light-hearted in spirit or mood
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* Spread cheer with her blithe spirit.
Synonyms: jocund, merry, joyous
Antonyms: dejected, forlorn, abject - BOG: A swamp
Sentence:
* Sank into the spongy bog.
Synonyms: morass, fen, quagmire, mire - BOMBASTIC (noun: BOMBAST): High-sounding; pretentious in language.
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* A bombastic speech, inflated with meaningless high-flown words.
Synonyms: ranting, pompous, fustian - BOORISH: Unrefined in
speech or manners
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* Exhibited the boorish manners of a backwoodsman.
Synonyms: churlish, uncouth, uncultured, crass
Antonym: suave - BUCOLIC: Pertaining to the country
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* A bucolic poem de- the joys of the shepherd.
Synonyms: pastoral, rustic, rural - BUFFOON: full of ludicrous tricks.
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* A clown acting like a buffoon,
Synonym: harlequin - BULWARK:
(1) An embankment used as a fortification;
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* A lofty bulwark for defense.
Synonyms: rampart
(2) A person, idea, or object serving as a protection.
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* Acted as a bulwark in the fight against crime. - BUMPTIOUS: Obnoxiously conceited or self-assertive
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* A bumptious monitor, puffed up with his own importance,
Synonyms: aggressive, arrogant, contumelious, overbearing
Adj. = Adjective
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