vocab b-list
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- one that confers a benefit
- benefactor
- carefree
- blithe
- to provide support or reinforcement
- bolster
- self-evident, pretentious, inflated or pompous writing or speech
- bombast
- pompous; overblown
- bombastic
- of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen; rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants.
- bucolic
- .-to grow rapidly; to flourish.
- burgeon
- .-a fools scepter
- bauble
- the sudden appearance of the commonplace in the otherwise elevated matter of style; anticlimactic.
- bathos
- deprived or robbed of possession or use of something; lacking something needed
- bereft
- to present as a gift.
- bestow
- giving or disposed to give freely, generous, liberal
- bounteous
- lacking originality, freshness or novelty; trite; stale from overuse
- banal-
- a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggerations or comic imitation
- burlesque
- a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court
- barrister
- to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner
- Babylon
- a region marked by intricate erosional sculpturing, scanty vegetation, and fantastically formed hills
- badland
- of relating to or having the characteristics of artistic _expression prevalent in the 17th century that is marked generally extravagant forms and elaborate grotesque ornamentation.
- baroque
- a projecting part of a fortification; a fortified area or position.
- bastion
- obscene, lewd: boisterously or humorous indecent
- bawdy
- to confuse with strong light; to impress forcibly; enchant
- bedazzle
- to procreate as the father: sire: to produce as an effect or outgrowth
- beget
- to lead by deception
- beguile
- waging war; belonging to or recognized as a state of war and protected by and subject to the laws of war.
- belligerent
- favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars.
- bellicose
- an _expression of good wishes
- benediction
- of gentle disposition.
- benign
- medieval allegorical or moralizing work on the appearance and habits of real or imaginary animals: a collection of descriptions of real or imaginary animals
- bestiary
- to blow in stormy noise gusts
- bluster
- a violent boisterous blowing
- bluster
- peasant: rude or insensitive person
- boor
- relating to or concerned with earning a living- used pejoratively; utilitarian; practical
- banausic
- an outer defensive work; a tower at a gate or bridge
- barbican
- broom, esp. one made of twigs; an edging or reinforcement around a pocket opening
- besom
- one who lives by plunder usu. as a member of a band
- brigand
- a rich oriental silk fabric with raised patterns in gold and silver; a fabric characterized by raised designs
- brocade
- the habit of unconsciously gritting or grinding the teeth especially in situations of stress or sleep
- bruxism
- Valkyrie who is waked from an enchanted sleep by Sigurd and later has him killed when he forgets her
- Brynhild
- a solid wall-like structure raised for defense: rampart; breakwater; seawall; a strong support or protection; the side of a ship above the upper deck
- bulwark
- a small machine gun
- burpgun
- a member of the extremist wing of the Russian Social Democratic party that seized supreme power in Russia by the Revolution of November 1917
- Bolshevik
- war conducted with freat speed and force; violent surprise offensive by massed air forces and mechanized ground forces in close coordination
- blitzkrieg
- the act of entering into a marriage with one person while still legally married to another
- bigamy
- an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable; one whose actions are recklessly defiant
- berserk