B Flashcards
(33 cards)
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Balk
A
Refuse to deal with something
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Baleful
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Threatening
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Banter
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Light teasing remarks
3
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Bard
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Poet
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Baroque
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Flamboyant style of architecture and art
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Barrage
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Attacking flow of something
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Bedeck
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Decorate
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Begrudging
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Ungenerous
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Beleaguer
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Annoy
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Belie
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To contrast with; show to be false
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Belligerent
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Hostile and aggressive
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Bemoan
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Lament; to express grief or disappointment about something
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Bequeath
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Leave someone something in will
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Bereave
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Deprive through death
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Bereft
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Lacking; sense of loss
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Beseech
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Beg
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Bifurcate
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Divide in two
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Bilk
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Cheat
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Bivalve
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Mollusk with hinged shell
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Blandishment
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Flattery & enticements
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Blight
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Ruin
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Blithe
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Casual
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Bohemian
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Artist who lives free of regard for conventional rules and practices
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Bolster
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Encourage through support
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Bombastic
Pompous, ostentatiously lofty in style
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Boon
Great benefit
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Boorish
Ill mannered
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Bourgeois
Capitalist; relating to social class that owns most the wealth
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Broach
To bring up a difficult/awkward subject
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Bungle
Spoil something
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Burgeon
To flourish/develop rapidly
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Buttress
Wall support
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Byzantine
Extremely complex or intricate
