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- bluster
- blow in heavy gusts; threaten emptily; bully
- bogus
- counerfiet; not authentic
- boisterous
- violent; rough; noisy
- bolster
- support; reinforce
- bolt
- door bar; length of fabric
- bombardment
- attack (as with missles)
- bombastic
- pompous; using inflated language
- boorish
- rude; insensitive
- bountiful
- abundant; graciously generous
- bourgeois
- middle class; selfishly materialistic; dully conventional
- bovine
- cowlike; placid and dull
- bowdlerize
- expurgate (change or remove)
- boycott
- refrain from buying or using
- brandish
- wave around; flourish
- bravado
- swagger; assumed air of defiance
- breach
- breaking of contract of duty; fissure or gap
- brindled
- tawny or grayish with streaks or spots
- bristling
- rising like bristles; showing irritation
- brittle
- easily broken; difficult
- broach
- introduce; open up
- brocade
- rich, figured fabric
- browbeat
- bully; intimidate
- browse
- graze; skim or glance at casually
- brunt
- main impact or shock
- buffet
- slap; batter; knock about
- bugaboo
- bugbear; object of baseless terror
- bullion
- gold and silver in form of bars
- bulwark
- eathwork or other strong defense; person who defends
- bungle
- mismanage; blunder
- bouyant
- able to float; cheerful adn optimistic
- bureaucracy
- overregulated administrative system marked by red tape
- burgeon
- grow forth; send out buds
- burlesque
- give an imitation that ridicules
- burnish
- make shiny by rubbing; polish
- buttress
- support; prop up
- buxom
- full-bosomed; plump; jolly
- cabal
- small grop of persons secretly united to promote their own interests
- cacophonous
- discordant; inharmonious
- cadaverous
- like a corpse, pale
- cadence
- rhythmic rise and fall (of words, sounds)
- cadge
- beg; mooch; panhandle
- calamity
- disaster; misery
- calculated
- deliberately planned; likely
- calligraphy
- beautiful writing; excellenct penmanship
- callous
- hardened; unfeeling
- callow
- youthful; immature; inexperienced
- calumny
- malicious misrepresentation; slander
- camaraderie
- good-fellowship
- cameo
- shell or jewel carved in releif; star's special appearance in a minor role in a film
- camouflage
- diguise; conceal
- canard
- false or unfounded story
- candor
- frankness; open honesty
- canine
- related to dogs; doglike
- canker
- any ulcerous sore; any evil
- canon
- collection or authoritative list of books (viewed as scripture); rule or principle, frequently religious
- cant
- insincere expressions of piety
- cantankerous
- ill-humored; irritable
- cantata
- story set to music, to be sung by chorus
