B Flashcards
(136 cards)
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back and forth
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vacillating
oscillating
2
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back away from what was said
A
backpedal
3
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back them up
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lend support
4
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back-up plan
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contingency
5
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bad acts
A
indiscretions
transgressions
improprieties
6
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bad at
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inept
not well suited for
7
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bad effects
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adverse effects
8
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bad idea
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ill advised
inadvisable
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bad luck
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misfortune
10
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bad mouth
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throw aspersions on
deride
disparage
denigrate
11
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bad quality
A
leaves much to be desired
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bad situation
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plight
predicament
13
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bad smelling
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putrid
rancid
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bad taste
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in poor form
15
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bad tempered
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irascible
cantankerous
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bad timing
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untimely
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bad weather
A
inclement
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badly conceived
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misbegotten
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bag of tricks
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repertoire
20
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balance
A
equilibrium
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bare
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austere
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barely
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scarcely
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barely know her
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we’re on short acquaintance
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barely perceptible
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liminal
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bark is worse than his bite
he's just blustering
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based on
predicated on
27
basic instinct
primal urge
28
be discouraged
lose heart
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be good enough
should suffice
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be hospitable
extend hospitality
31
be offended by
take exception to
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be optimistic
strike an optimistic tone
33
be quiet
keep your counsel
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be seen as
constitute
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beat around the bush
flutter round it
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beaten badly
routed
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become president
assumed office
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become a victim of
fall victim to
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become more accepted
gain currency with
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become public
came to light
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becomes
it rendered
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before mentioned
aforementioned
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beg
implore
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begin again
resume
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begin
commence
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beginner
novice
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beginning (are beginning)
incipient
| emergent
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beginning (the beginning)
the inception
the onset
the emergence
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behave
conduct oneself
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behavior
conventions
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behind the scenes
the inner workings of
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being attacked
beset upon
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belief
notion
conviction
sentiment
tenet
54
believability
credence
| plausibility
55
believable
plausible
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believe
subscribe to
57
believe in
adhere to
58
beneficial
salutary
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benefit
would profit by
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besides
quite apart from
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best
unparalleled
unrivaled
incomparable
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best way to
how best to
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betrayal
duplicity
64
better
preferable
65
between
among
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between us
between you and me
67
biased
partisan
| tendentious
68
biographical movie
biopic
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birth
nascence
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birthplace
provenance
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biting
acerbic
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bitter
acrid
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bitterness
rancor
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black sheep
pariah
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blame
implicate
| apportion blame
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blaming yourself
self reproach
77
bland
insipid
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blatant
overt
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blend into
assimilitate
80
block
thwart
81
blood feud
vendetta
82
bluffing
posturing
83
boastful
vaunting
84
bodily
corporeal
85
bogug
without merit
86
bold
brazen
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boldness
temerity
| audacity
88
bombard
barrage
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bond
a rapport
90
boos
a chorus of dispain
91
bored of (incorrect usage)
bored with
| bored by
92
boredum
tedium
93
boring
tedious
| mundane
94
born with
graced with
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bossy
imperious
96
both
both of which
| respectively
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bothered by
encumbered by
| burdened by
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bottomless pit
abyss
99
brag
boast
100
brainwash
inculcate a sense of
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brave
undaunted
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break apart
fracture
| disband
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break open
breach
104
break up
fragment
105
brief
cursory
| fleeting
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briefly
in passing
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brightness
luminosity
108
alive with
brimming with
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bring about
engender
| elicit
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bring to life
animate
111
bring together
assemble
112
bring up for discussion
broach the subject
113
brings out
accents
114
broad range of
eclectic
115
broken down
derelict
| in disrepair
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brown-nosing
fawning
117
brush aside
dismiss
118
buffer
hedge against
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built-in
inherent
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built on
rests in part on
| is predicated on
121
bullied
hectored
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bum
indigent
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bum-looking
unkempt
| harried
124
bunch of
accumulation of
| repository of
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burden (a burden)
an encumbrance
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burden (to burden)
to encumber
| to weight heavy on
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busy
preoccupied
| absorbed in
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busy thinking
pensive
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busybody
a yenta
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but
with the caveat
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butt in
horn in
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by chance
happenstance
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by itself
intrinsically
| in its own right
134
by the way
incidentally
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by your own decision
by your own volition
| of your own accord
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busy place
swirl of activity
