SAT confuse words 2
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- barbarism
- 1. An instance, act, trait, or custom marked by coarseness or brutality: "When he slapped the child with such harshness, his barbarism resulted in his arrest by the police."
- bazaar
- 1. An Oriental market place; shopping quarter; marketplace, trade center: "We bought this rug at the bazaar in Marrakesh."
- barren
- 2. A person with great power, wealth, and influence in some sphere: "Because of his substantial accumulation of silver, he was considered the silver baron of the country."1. Producing no offspring, childless: "The couple decided to adopt a child when they realized that she was barren."2. Incapable of producing offspring; sterile: "The farmer was cheated when he bought the barren cow."3. Lacking vegetation, as barren fields; unproductive, unfruitful, depleted, desolate: "No one could raise crops on this barren land."4. Unproductive, unfruitful, fruitless, unrewarding, useless, futile; uninteresting, dull, prosaic, uninformative, lackluster, uninspiring, stale: "It a barren topic, not worth any further discussion."
- barbarous
- 1. Cruel, brutal, mean, inhuman, vicious, harsh: "It is barbarous to keep a large dog cooped up like that."
- bale (BAYL)Bound bundle, bundle, pack, parcel, package:
- "The farmers loaded the cotton bales on to the truck."
- Bazaar
- is a word for a charity sale spelled in a bizarre way.
- band
- 1. Group, company, party, body, troop, crowd, bunch: 2. Orchestra, ensemble, group: 3. Unite, join, consolidate, gather: "If we band together, we can give our complaints greater strength."
- barbarian
- From Greek barbaros, "non-Hellenic"; hence, "foreign, rude".
- breach
- 1. An opening made by breaking down something solid; such as, a gap made in a wall or
- baring (rhymes with caring)
- Uncovering, exposing: "He was so disturbed that he could not stop baring his innermost feelings."
- barbaric
- 1. Barbarian, uncivilized, barbarous, savage, wild: "The Huns were notorious for their barbaric cruelty." "The tribal dance was a spectacle of barbaric splendor."
- baited
- Lured, as food, that is placed on a hook or in a trap and used in the catching of animals:
- bated (BAT'D)
- 1. Lessened by the force of; moderated:
- bawled
- 1. Past tense of bawl (cried loudly); cried, wailed, howled, weeped: 2. Shouted, bellowed, yelled, cried out, howled, clamored
- baron
- 1. A lord or nobleman; peer.
- breech (BREECH)
- 1. The lower rear portion of the human trunk; buttocks, rump, seat, behind, posterior; hindquarters, hind part: Breech is an old-fashioned word for "backside".
- barring (rhymes with tarring)
- As a preposition, excepting for, excluding; as a verb, to obstruct or impede, block; to keep out, exclude: "Barring any adverse weather, we will walk the full distance."
- batted
- 1. To hit with or as if with a club or bat: "When he batted the ball that day, he set a record."
- bizarre
- Strange, fantastic, weird, queer, freakish, outlandish, odd, unusual: "Children like to wear bizarre costumes on Holloween."
- banned
- Prohibited, restricted, barred, excluded, banished, debarred, forbidden; proscribed, suppressed, interdicted: "Bicycles are banned from the new superhighway." "They threatened to have the book banned."
- bald
- 1. No hair on the head; baldheaded, baldpated, hairless, smooth, glabrous: 2. Lacking a natural or usual covering; bare, without cover, treeless, denuded, naked, barren3. Open, bare, undisguised, flagrant, blunt, obvious, unadorned, naked, simple; unequivocable, unqualified, utter: