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Words starting with “B”

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(134 Words with Meaning in English)

1. babbittry   smugness
2. bacchanal  orgy, drunken celebration
3. badger  pester
4. badinage  banter
5. bagatelle   nonentity, trifle
6. bailiwick  area of concern or business
7. baleen  whalebone
8. baleful  hostile,  malignant
9. balk  hesitate
10. balky  hesitant
11. ballad   song
12. ballast  counterbalance
13. ballistics   study of projectiles
14. balm  soothing ointment
15. banal  trite
16. bandy  exchange
17. bane  poison, nuisance
18. barbarian  savage
19. bard  poet
20. baroque  ornate
21. barrister  lawyer
22. bask  take pleasure in, sun
23. basso  low male voice
24. bastion  fort
25. bathos sentimentality
26. batten  fasten, board up
27. battery  physical attack
28. bauble  trinket
29. beatify   sanctify
30. beatitude   state of bliss
31. beckon   lure
32. becoming   proper
33. bedlam  uproar
34. befit  to be suitable
35. beget  produce, procreate
36. begrudge  resent, envy
37. beguile  deceive, seduce
38. behemoth   monster
39. behest  command
40. beholden  in debt, obliged
41. belabor  assail verbally, dwell on
42. belated  delayed, overdue
43. beleaguer  besiege
44. belfry  bell tower
45. belie  misrepresent, disprove
46. belittle   disparage
47. bellicose   warlike
48. belligerent   combative
49. bellow   shout
50. bellwether  leader, guide
51. bemoan   lament
52. bemused  bewildered
53. benchmark  standard
54. benediction   blessing
55. benefactor  patron
56. benevolent   kind
57. benign  harmless
58. bent  determined
59. bequeath   will
60. bequest  gift, endowment
61. berate  scold
62. bereave  to rob, to deprive somebody of a love one, especially through death
63. bereft  deprived of
64. berserk  crazed with anger
65. beseech   implore,  beg
66. beset  harass, encircle
67. besiege  beleaguer, surround
68. besmirch  slander, sully
69. bespeak  attest
70. bestial  beast-like, brutal
71. bestow  offer, grant
72. betrothed  engaged
73. bevy   group
74. bibliography   list of sources of information
75. bicameral  having two legislative branches
76. bicker  quarrel
77. biennial  occurring every two years
78. bilateral  two-sided
79. bilious   ill-tempered
80. bilk  swindle
81. biodegradable  naturally decaying
82. biopsy  removing tissue for examination
83. biped  two-footed animal
84. bistro  tavern, cafe
85. bivouac  encampment
86. blandish  flatter, grovel
87. blasé  bored with life
88. blasphemy  insulting God
89. bleak  cheerless, forlorn
90. blight   decay
91. bliss  happiness
92. blithe   joyous
93. bloated   swollen
94. bode  portend
95. bogus  forged, false
96. bogy  bugbear
97. boisterous    noisy
98. bolt  move quickly and suddenly
99. bombast   pompous speech
100. bon vivant  gourmet, epicure
101. bona fide made in good faith
102. bonanza  a stroke of luck
103. boon  payoff, windfall
104. boor  vulgar person
105. bootless   unavailing
106. booty  loot, stolen goods
107. botch   bungle
108. bourgeois  middle class
109. bovine  cow-like
110. boycott  abstain in protest
111. bracing  refreshing
112. brackish  salty
113. brandish  display menacingly
114. bravado  feigned bravery
115. bravura  technically difficult, brilliant
116. brawn  strength
117. brevity  shortness of expression
118. brigand  robber
119. brink  edge, threshold
120. broach  bring up a topic for conversation
121. bromide   cliché
122. brook  tolerate
123. browbeat   to bully
124. brusque  curt
125. bucolic   rustic
126. buffet  blow, pummel
127. buffoon   fool, joker
128. bulwark  fortification
129. buncombe   empty, showy talk
130. buoyant  floatable, cheerful
131. burgeon sprout
132. burlesque   farce
133. burly   husky
134. buttress   support