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Saturday 7 January 2023

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'B'

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English Vocabulary
Words Start from Letter 'B'

  1. 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

  2. BANEFUL (Noun: BANE: poison; source of harm): Destructive, poisonous
    Sentence:
    * A baneful effect, causing serious injury.
    Synonyms: deleterious, pernicious, virulent, noxious, toxic
    Antonym: beneficent

  3. BANTER: Good-natured, teasing or ridicule
    Sentence:
    * The two wits exchanged banter, to the amusement of the audience.
    Synonyms: raillery, chaff

  4. BATON: A stick or staff
    Sentence:
    * The conductor wielded his baton gracefully.

  5. BELIE: To give a roles idea of
    Sentence:
    * His gracious manner belled his evil purpose.
    Synonym: misrepresent

  6. BELLICOSE: Inclined to quarrel; warlike
    Sentence:
    * His bellicose attitude often got John into fights.
    Synonyms: pugnacious, contentious, disputatious
    Antonyms: pacific, conciliatory

  7. BELLIGERENT: Engaged in war
    Sentence:
    * Two belligerent nations warring fiercely

  8. BENEVOLENT: Kindly; charitable
    Sentence:
    * Like a benevolent monarch, bestowing many favors.
    Synonyms: benign, benignant, gracious, magnanimous
    Antonyms: malevolent, malignant

  9. BEREAVE: To deprive or leave desolate by loss
    Sentence:
    * A widow just bereaved of her husband

  10. BESMIRCH: To soil or dirty
    Sentence:
    * Besmirched his opponent's good name with vile epithets.
    Synonyms: stilly, defile, smirch, bespatter

  11. BIASED: Prejudiced
    Sentence:
    * A misled by a biased point of view.
    Synonyms: bigoted, arbitrary, partial, partisan
    Antonyms: disinterested, equitable

  12. BIBLIOPHILE: A lover of books
    Sentence:
    * The bibliophile fingered the old book fondly.
    Antonym: bibliophobe

  13. BIZARRE: Queer;  unusual in appearance
    Sentence:
    * Bizarre clothes, outlandish in the extreme.
    Synonyms: odd, fantastic, grotesque, eccentric

  14. BLAND: Gentle; polite; agreeable
    Sentence:
    * A bland diet, without irritating foods.
    Synonyms: mild, suave (affable or persuasive in manner), soothing, non-irritating
    Antonyms: piquant, tart, racy, caustic, acrid, pungent

  15. BLANDISHMENT: A flattering speech or act
    Sentence:
    * Attracted people by his blandishments.

  16. BLEMISH:
    (1) (Verb):
    To scar or spoil;
    Sentence:
    * Bad associates blemished his character.
     (2) (Noun): A disfigurement, defect
    Sentence:
    * A character without a blemish.

  17. BLIGHT: To ruin or decay the rotting wheat.
    Sentence:
    * Blighted by incessant rain.
    Synonyms: wither, blast

  18. BLITHE: Gay and light-hearted in spirit or mood
    Sentence:
    * Spread cheer with her blithe spirit.
    Synonyms: jocund, merry, joyous
    Antonyms: dejected, forlorn, abject

  19. BOG: A swamp
    Sentence:
    * Sank into the spongy bog.
    Synonyms: morass, fen, quagmire, mire

  20. BOMBASTIC (noun: BOMBAST): High-sounding; pretentious in language.
    Sentence:
    * A bombastic speech, inflated with meaningless high-flown words.
    Synonyms: ranting, pompous, fustian

  21. BOORISH: Unrefined in speech or manners
    Sentence:
    * Exhibited the boorish manners of a backwoodsman.
    Synonyms: churlish, uncouth, uncultured, crass
    Antonym: suave

  22. BUCOLIC: Pertaining to the country
    Sentence:
    * A bucolic poem de- the joys of the shepherd.
    Synonyms: pastoral, rustic, rural

  23. BUFFOON:  full of ludicrous tricks.
    Sentence:
    * A clown acting like a buffoon,
    Synonym: harlequin

  24. BULWARK:
    (1)
    An embankment used as a fortification; 
    Sentence:
    *  A lofty bulwark for defense.
    Synonyms: rampart
    (2) A person, idea, or object serving as a protection.
    Sentence:
    * Acted as a bulwark in the fight against crime.

  25. BUMPTIOUS: Obnoxiously conceited or self-assertive
    Sentence:
    * A bumptious monitor, puffed up with his own importance,
    Synonyms: aggressive, arrogant, contumelious, overbearing
     



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