SAT Vocabulary (Baton-)
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- battalion
- A body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming part of a regiment.
- batten
- A narrow strip of wood.
- batter
- A thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery.
- bauble
- A trinket.
- beatify
- To make supremely happy.
- beatitude
- Any state of great happiness.
- beau
- An escort or lover.
- becalm
- To make quiet.
- beck
- To give a signal to, by nod or gesture.
- bedaub
- To smear over, as with something oily or sticky.
- bedeck
- To cover with ornament.
- bedlam
- Madhouse.
- befog
- To confuse.
- befriend
- To be a friend to, especially when in need.
- beget
- To produce by sexual generation.
- begrdge
- To envy one of the possession of.
- belate
- To delay past the proper hour.
- belay
- To make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.
- belie
- To misrepresent.
- believe
- To accept as true on the testimony or authority of others.
- belittle
- To disparage.
- belle
- A woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc.
- bellicose
- Warlike.
- belligent
- Mainfesting a warlike spirit.
- bemoan
- To lament.
- benediction
- A solemn invocation of the divine blessing.
- benefactor
- A doer of kindly and charitable acts.
- benefice
- A chruch office endowed with funds or property for the maintence of divince service.
- beneficient
- Characterized by charity and kindness.
- beneficial
- Helpful.
- beneficiary
- One who is lawfully entitled to profits and proceeds of an estate or property.
- benefit
- Helpful result.
- benevolence
- Any act of kindness or well-doing.
- benevolent
- Loving others and actively desirous of their well-being.
- benign
- Good and kind at heart.
- benignant
- Benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect.
- benignity
- Kindness of feeling, disposition, or manner.
- benison
- Blessing.
- bequeath
- To give by will.
- bereave
- To make desolate with loneliness and grief.
- berth
- A bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc.
- beseech
- To implore.
- beset
- To attack on all sides.
- besmear
- To smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance.
- bestial
- Animal.
- bestrew
- To sprinkle or cover over with things strewn.
- bestride
- To get or sit upon astride, as a horse.
- bethink
- To remind oneself.
- betide
- To happen to or befall.
- betimes
- In good season or time.
- beroth
- To engage to marry.
- berothal
- Engagement to marry.
- bevel
- Any inclination of two surface other than 90 degrees.
- bewilder
- To confuse the perceptions or judgement of.
- bibliomania
- The passion for collecting books.
- bibliography
- A list of the words of an author, ot the literature bearing a particular subject.
- bibliophile
- One who loves books.
- bibulous
- Fond of drinking.
- bide
- To await.
- biennial
- A plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second.
- bier
- A horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave.
- bigamist
- One who has two spouses at the same time.
- bigamy
- The crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living.
- bight
- A slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coastline.
- bilateral
- Two-sided.
- bilingual
- Speaking two languages.
- biograph
- A bibliographical sketch or notice.
- biography
- A written account of one's life, actions, and character.
- biology
- The science of life or living organisms.
- biped
- An animal having two feet.
- birthright
- A privilege or possession into which one is born.
- bitterness
- Acridity, as to the taste.
- blase(`)
- Sated with pleasure.
- blaspheme
- To indulge in profane oaths.
- blatant
- Noisily or offendingly loud or clamorous.
- blaze
- A vivid glowing flame.
- blazon
- To make widely or generally known.
- bleak
- Desolate.
- blemish
- A mark that mars beauty.
- blithe
- Joyous.
- blithesome
- Cheerful.
- blockade
- The shutting up of a town, a frontier, or a line of a coast by hostile forces.
- boatswain
- A subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc.
- bodice
- A women's ornamental corset-shaped laced waist.
- bodily
- Corporeal.
- boisterous
- Unchecked merriment or animal spirits.
- bole
- The trunk or body of a tree.
- bolero
- A Spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompnaied by caste nets and singing.
- boll
- A round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton.
- bnolster
- To support, as something wrong.
- bomb
- An hollow projectile containing an explosive material.
- bombard
- To assail with any missle or with abusive speech.
- bombardier
- A person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells.
- bombast
- Inflated or extravagant languuage, especially on unimportant subjects.
- boorish
- Rude.
- bore
- To wear by tediousness or dullness.
- borough
- An incorporated village or town.
- bosom
- The breast or upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman.
- botanical
- Connected with the study or cultivation of plants.
- botanize
- To study plant-life.
- botany
- The study that treats of plants.
- bountiful
- Showing abundance.
- Bowdlerize
- To expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages.
- bowler
- In cricket, the player who delivers the ball.
- boycott
- To place the products or merchandise of under a band.
- brae
- Hillside.
- braggart
- A vain boaster.
- brandish
- To wave, shake, or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear.
- bravado
- An aggressive display of boldness.
- bravo
- Well done.
- bray
- A loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn.
- braze
- To make of or ornament with brass.
- barzier
- An open pan or basin for holding live coals.
- breach
- The violation of official duty, lawful right, or a legal obligation.
- breaker
- One who trains horses, dogs, etc.
- breech
- The buttocks.
- brethren
- Members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.
- brevity
- Shortness of duration.
- bric-a-brac
- Objects of curiosity of for decoration.
- bridle
- The head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins.
- brigade
- A body of troops consisting of two or more regiments.
- brigadier
- General officer who commands a brigade, ranking between colonel and a major-general.
- brigand
- One who lives by robbery and plunder.
- brimstone
- Sulfur.
- brine
- Water saturated with salt.
- bristle
- One of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine,: used in brush-making, etc.
- Britannia
- The United Kingdom of Great Britain.
- Briticism
- A word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British.
- brittle
- Fragile.
- broach
- To mention, for the first time.
- broadcast
- Disseminated far and wide.
- brogan
- A coarse, heavy shoe.
- brogue
- Any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people.
- brokerage
- The business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.
- bromine
- A dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor.
- bronchitis
- Inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
- bronchus
- Either of the two subdivisions of the trachea converying air into the lungs.
- brooch
- An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside.
- brotherhood
- Spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity.
- browbeat
- To overwhelm, or attempt to do so, by stem, haughty, or rude address or manner.
- brusque
- Somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech.
- buffoon
- A clown.
- buffoonery
- Low drollery, coarse jokes, etc.
- bulbous
- Of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb.
- bullock
- An ox.
- bulrush
- Any one of various tall rush-like plants growing in a damp ground or water.
- bulwark
- Anything that gives security or defense.
- bumper
- A cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health.
- bumptious
- Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit.
- bungle
- To execute clumsily.
- buoyancy
- Power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas.
- buoyant
- Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat.
- bureau
- A chest of drawers for clothing, etc.
- bureaucracy
- Government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business.
- burgess
- In colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia.
- burgher
- An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corportate town.
- burnish
- To make brilliant or shining.
- bursar
- A treasurer.
- bustle
- To hurry.
- butt
- To strike with or as with the heads, or horns.
- butte
- A conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.
- buttress
- Any support or prop.
- by-law
- A rule or law adopted by an association, a corporation, or the like.
- baton
- An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege.