SAT "B" List

Question 1

balk

Answer 1

to stop short and refuse to go on

Question 2

ballast

Answer 2

a structure that helps to stabilize or steady

Question 3

balm

Answer 3

something that has a comforting, soothing, or restorative effect

Question 4

banal

Answer 4

drearily commonplace and often predictable; trite

Question 5

baneful

Answer 5

exceedingly harmful

Question 6

barrage

Answer 6

to bombard (someone) with something

Question 7

beatific

Answer 7

displaying calmness and joy, relating to a state of celestial happiness

Question 8

becalm

Answer 8

to stop the progress of; to soothe

Question 9

becloud

Answer 9

to make less visible; to obscure, or blur

Question 10

bedraggle

Answer 10

soiled, wet and limp; dilapidated

Question 11

beget

Answer 11

to produce, especially as an effect or outgrowth; to bring about

Question 12

behemoth

Answer 12

something of monstrous size or power; huge creature

Question 13

belie

Answer 13

to picture falsely; misrepresent

Question 14

bellicose

Answer 14

warlike

Question 15

belligerent

Answer 15

inclined or eager to fight; hostile or agressive

Question 16

benefactor

Answer 16

a doer of kindly and charitable acts

Question 17

beneficent

Answer 17

pertaining to an act of kindness

Question 18

beneficial

Answer 18

producing or promoting a favorable result; advantageous

Question 19

benevolent

Answer 19

well meaning and kind

Question 20

benign

Answer 20

kind and gently

Question 21

berate

Answer 21

to scold harshly

Question 22

bilious

Answer 22

ill-tempered, sickly, ailing

Question 23

blandish

Answer 23

coax (someone) with kind words or flattery

Question 24

blasphemous

Answer 24

cursing, profane; extremely irreverent

Question 25

blatant

Answer 25

completely obvious and conspicuous, especially in an offensive, crass manner

Question 26

blithely

Answer 26

merrily, lightheartedly cheerful; without appropriate thought

Question 27

bolster

Answer 27

to buoy up or hearten; to support or prop up;To support, as something wrong

Question 28

bombastic

Answer 28

given to pompous speech or writing

Question 29

bovine

Answer 29

relating to cows

Question 30

braggart

Answer 30

a person who brags or boasts in a loud and empty manner

Question 31

brandish

Answer 31

to wave, shake, or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear

Question 32

bravado

Answer 32

an aggressive display of boldness

Question 33

brevity

Answer 33

the quality or state of being brief in duration

Question 34

broach

Answer 34

to mention or suggest for the first time

Question 35

bucolic

Answer 35

pastoral, rural

Question 36

burgeon

Answer 36

to grow and flourish; to put forth new buds, leaves, or greenery; sprout

Question 37

burnish

Answer 37

to polish; to make smooth and bright

Question 38

bursar

Answer 38

a treasurer or keeper of funds

Question 39

buttress

Answer 39

any support or prop