SAT Words - B-1
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- Badger
- To harass or pester
- Baize
- Cotton or woolen fabric used to cover tables
- Baleful
- Sinister or malignant
- Balsam
- Aromatic resin used for medical ointment
- Banal
- Commonplace
- Bask
- To expose oneself in pleasant warmth OR to take great pleasure or satisfaction
- Batten
- To thrive, especially at another's expense OR a strip of wood
- Bauble
- A trinket
- Beatitude
- A state of supreme happiness
- Beau
- An escort or lover
- Beck
- A beckoning gesture
- Bedaub
- To smear over
- Bedeck
- To cover with ornament
- Bedlam
- Madhouse
- Befog
- To obscure or confuse
- Beget
- To produce; make children
- Begrudge
- To envy the possession or enjoyment of
- Belay
- To secure or make fast by winding around something [a rope]
- Belie
- Misrepresent; be in contradiction with
- Belle
- A popular, attractive girl, especially the most attractive one of the group
- Bellicose
- Warlike, pugnacious, belligerent
- Belligerent
- Warlike, pugnacious, bellicose
- Bemoan
- To lament; express grief over
- Benediction
- The act of praying for divine protection
- Benefactor
- One who gives aid (especially financial aid)
- Benefice
- A church office endowed with funds
- Beneficent
- Characterized by performing acts of kindess or charity; benevolent
- Beneficiary
- One who receives benefits; one who receives profits of porperty or an estate
- Benevolence/benevolent
- An act of kindness/characterized by kind acts; beneficent
- Benign/benignant/benignity
- Good and kind of heart/kind, beneficial/kindness
- Benison
- A spoken blessing
- Bequeath
- To pass to another; to give (by law) by will
- Bereave
- To make alone (by death)
- Berth
- A place to stay or maneuver OR a job
- Beseech
- To implore
- Beset
- To attack from all sides; harass
- Besmear
- To smear over; bedaub
- Bestrew
- To strew with things as to cover it
- Bestride
- To sit or stand on with legs astride; to get on the back of
- Bethink
- To cause oneself to consider or remember
- Betide
- To happen, befall
- Bevel
- Two surfaces meeting at an angle other than 90 degrees
- Bibliomania
- A passion for collecting books
- Bibliophile
- One who loves books
- Bibulous
- Marked by the consumption of alchol; fond of drinking
- Bide
- To wait or remain
- Bier
- A coffin along with its stand
- Bigamist/bigamy
- One who has two spouses and the same time/the crime of marrying another person while having another living spouse
- Bight
- A loop in a rope OR a curve (especially in a shorline)
- Blase
- Uninterested because of frequent exposure OR very sophisticated
- Blazon
- To proclaim widely or to make widely known
- Blithe/blithesome
- Carefree and lighthearted/cheerful
- Boatswain
- An officer in charge of a ship's rigging, anchors, etc.
- Bodice
- The part of the woman's dress between the shoulders and the waist
- Boisterous
- Lacking restraint or discipline; violent
- Bole
- The trunk of a tree
- Bolster
- Support
- Bombast
- Pompous speech or writing
- Boorish
- Rude
- Borough
- An incorporated village or town