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Flashcards in Bastion-Burlesque Deck (26)
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Beget

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To give birth to
To create
To lead to
To cause

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Bastion

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Stronghold
Fortress
Fortified place

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Belabor

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To go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent

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Beleaguer

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To surround
To besiege
To harass

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Belie

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To give false impression of

To contradict

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Belittle

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To make to seem little

To put someone down

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Belligerent

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Combative
Quarrelsome
Waging war

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Bemused

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Confused

Bewildered

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Benefactor

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One who provides help, especially in the form of a gift or donation

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Benevolent

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Generous
Kind
Doing good deeds

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Benign

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Gentle
Not harmful
Kind
Mild

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Bequest

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Something left to someone in a will

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Bereaved

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Deprived or left desolate, especially through death

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Beset

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To harass

To surround

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Blasphemy

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Irreverence
An insult to something held sacred
Profanity

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Blatant

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Unpleasantly or offensively noisy

Glaring

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Blight

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Disease in plants

Anything that injures or destroys

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Blithe

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Carefree

Cheerful

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Bourgeois

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Middle class, usually in a pejorative sense

Boringly conventional

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Bovine

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Cow related

Cowlike

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Brevity

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Briefness

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Broach

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To open a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject

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Bucolic

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Charmingly rural
Rustic
Countrylike

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Bureaucracy

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A system if government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rules
Red-tapey

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Burgeon

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To expand

To flourish

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Burlesque

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A ludicrous, mocking, lewd imitation