Quizlet 1,000+ vocab words for everything (B)

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  1. bacchanal: (n) a drunken reveler; party-goer
  2. badinage: (n) witty conversation
  3. baleful: (adj) threatening; sinister; deadly
  4. banal: (adj) ordinary; commonplace; trite
  5. bane: (n) deadly poison; cause of harm; torment
  6. bastion: (n) fortress; stronghold
  7. battery: (n) the unlawful beating of another
  8. bauble: (n) small, showy, worthless trinket or decoration
  9. beget: (v) to sire, to procreate as the father; to produce as an effect, to cause
  10. beguile: (v) to charm, enchant; to deceive; to while away time
  11. belabor: (v) to repeat a point unnecessarily, even absurdly
  12. beleaguer: (v) to surround, besiege; to relentless harass
  13. belie: (v) to contradict; to make a false impression
  14. belittle: (v) to put someone down; to insult
  15. bellicose: (adj) quarrelsome; warlike
  16. belligerent: (adj) warlike; stubbornly inclined to fight
  17. bemused: (adj) confused; dazed; bewildered
  18. benediction: (n) blessing, consecreation
  19. benign: (adj) homeless; gentle; safe
  20. bequest: (n) something left to someone in a will; legacy
  21. bereft: (v) to left alone and esolate (esp. by the death of a loved one)
  22. beset: (v) to harass; to trouble; to overwhelm
  23. betimes: (adv) in good time; early (literary)
  24. bevy: (n) a group, flock
  25. bicameral: (adj) composed of two chambers of legislative branches
  26. biennial: (adj) occuring every two years
  27. bilious: (adj) foul-tempered; bitter; irritable
  28. bilk: (v) to cheat, swindle; to avoid payment
  29. biopsy: (n) the removal of a piece of tissue from a living body for examination
  30. bombast: (n) pompous language; pretentious, meaningless speech
  31. bourgeois: (adj) middle class; conventional; of narrow, materialistic interests
  32. bovine: (adj) like a cow in nature and shape; sluggish, stupid
  33. braggadocio: (n) empty boasting; vanity; swaggering
  34. bravado: (n) boldness intended to impress or intimidate
  35. bravura: (n) a display of daring; a brilliant performance
  36. brevity: (n) briefness
  37. broach: (v) to bring up a subject, particularly a difficult one
  38. bucolic: (adj) rustic, charmingly rural
  39. bumptious: (adj) irritatingly self-assertive; offensively conceited
  40. burgeon: (v) to expand, flourish, blossom