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1
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Bacchanal

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a party animal; a drunken reveler; a drunken revelry or orgy

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Baleful

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menacing; threatening

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Balk

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to abruptly refuse (to do something); to stop short

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Ballyhoo

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sensational advertising or promotion; uproar

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Balm

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something that heals or soothes

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Banal

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unoriginal; ordinary

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Bandy

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to toss back and forth; to exchange

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Bane

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poison; torment; cause of harm

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Banter

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an exchange of god-humored or mildly teasing remarks

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Baroque

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extravagantly ornate; flamboyant in style

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Barrage

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a concentrated outpouring or artillery fire, or of anything else

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Bastion

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stronghold; fortress; fortified place

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Bauble

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a gaudy trinket; a small, inexpensive ornament

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Bedlam

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noisy uproar and chaos; a place characterized by noisy uproar and chaos

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Beget

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to give birth to; to create; to lead to; to cause

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Begrudge

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to envy another’s possession or enjoyment of something’ to be reluctant to give, or to give grudgingly

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Behest

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command; order

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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 a 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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Bemoan

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to mourn about; to lament

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Bemused

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confused; bewildered

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Benediction

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a blessing; an utterance of good wishes

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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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Benighted

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ignorant; unelightened

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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

31
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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

33
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Bestow

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to present as a gift; to confer

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Bilious

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ill-tempered; cranky

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Bivouac

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a temporary encampment, especially of soldiers

36
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Blanch

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to turn pale; to cause to turn pale

37
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Bland

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mild; tasteless; dull; unlively

38
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B;andishment

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flattery

39
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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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a disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys

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Bliss

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perfect contentment; extreme joy

43
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Blithe

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carefree; cheerful

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Bluster

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to roar; to be loud; to be tumultuous

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Bombast

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pompous or pretentious speech or writing

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Bon vivant

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a person who enjoys good food, good drink, and luxurious living

47
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Bona fide

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sincere; done or made in good faith; authentic; genuine

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Boon

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a blessing; a benefit

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Boor

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a rude or churlish person

50
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Booty

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goods taken from an enemy in war; plunder; stolen or confiscated goods

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Botch

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to bungle; to ruin through poor or clumsy effort

52
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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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Bracing

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invigorating

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Brandish

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to wave or display threateningly

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Bravado

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a false show or ostentatious show of bravery or defiance

57
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Brawn

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big muscles; great strength

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Brazen

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impudent; bold

59
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Breach

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a violation; a gap or break

60
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Brevity

A

briefness

61
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Brink

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edge

62
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Bristle

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to stiffen with anger; to act in a way suggestive of an animal whose hair is standing on end; to appear in some way similar to hair standing on end

63
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Broach

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to open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject

64
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Bromide

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a dull, obvious overfamiliar saying; a clich̩

65
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Brouhaha

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uproar; hubub

66
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Brusque

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abrupt in manner; blunt

67
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Bucolic

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charmingly rural; rustic; countrylike

68
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Buffoon

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a joker, especially one who is coarse or acts like an ass

69
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Bulwark

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a wall used as a defensive fortification; anything used as the main defense against anything else

70
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Bureeaucracy

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a system of government administration consisting or numerous bureaus or offices, especially one run according to inflexible ant inefficient rules; any large administrative system characterized by inefficiency, lots of rules, and red tape

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Burgeon

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to expand; to flourish

72
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Burlesque

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a ludicrous, mocking, lewd imitaton

73
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Byzantine

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extremely intricate or complicated in structure; having to do with the Byzantine Empire

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