Bleak: cheerless
Example: [bleak future]
Blemish: imperfection, mark, spoil, spoiling flaw, damage
Example: [Was it not to preserve his family name without a spot or blemish?]
Blight: afflict, decay, destroy
Example: [cast a blight on]
Bliss: happiness
Example: [my idea of sheer bliss]
Blithe: cheerful, Joyful, or without appropriate thought
Example: [She shows a blithe disregard for danger]
Blithesome: lighthearted, happy, festive, carefree, cheerful
Example: [And again, the holiday makers were not the blithesome creatures of her imagination]
Bloated: swollen
Example: [a bloated stomach]
Blockade: The shutting up of a town a frontier or a line of coast by hostile forces.
Bloviate: talk bombastically, to speak or write using too many words
Example: [His papers in the campaign of 1876 bloviated over the government’s extravagance]
Bludgeon: to hit someone several times with a heavy object
Example: [She was bludgeoned to death with a hammer]
Blunder: a mistake
Example: [it was a big blunder]
Blurt: especially when you are excited or nervous to say something suddenly and without thinking
Example: [Will you marry me? he blurted]
Bode: portend
Example: [The hurricane bodes disaster for those areas in its path]
Bodice: A women’s ornamental corset-shaped laced waist.
Bogus: false forged
Example: [bogus documents]
Boisterous: loud, rowdy, unrestrained noisy
Example: [a boisterous child]
Bole: oily clay, reddish brown pigment, tree trunk
Example: [It is not as large as the white oak or red oak, but is a splendid tree, its bole being very symmetrical and holding its size well. Interstratified with the lavas occur bands of red and brown colored bole]
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Bolero: a Spanish dance
Example: [They danced the bolero the day they got married]
Boll: seedpod, capsule, seedcase
Example: [A boll of malt was weekly brewed into ale, which was used by the household at discretion]
Bolster: To support or make something strong
Example: [Strong sales and high profits are bolstering the economy]
Bombard: To assail with any missile or with abusive speech.
Bombardier: bomber aircrew, officer in an aircraft designed to drop bombs
Example: [Bombardier is a military rank]
Bombast: pompous speech
Example: [In such circumstances, some recalled the bluster and bombast of Lenihan’s late lamented father in other testing times]
Bombastic: pompous, exaggerated, rhetorical, overly wordy, using difficult but meaningless words to impress people
Example: [bombastic words/claims/statements]
Bona Fide: made in good faith
Example: [a bona fide resident]
Bonhomie: affability, friendliness, geniality, good-heartedness, good nature
Example: [“Parties will not be wanting, monsieur le cardinal,” replied Monsieur, with a bonhomie worthy of one tradesman congratulating another. The good humor and bonhomie called up by this last evening amongst his old friends had disappeared]
Boon: something to be thankful for blessing
Example: [Guide dogs are a great boon to the partially sighted]
Boorish: Rude
Example: [boorish remarks]
Booty: loot
Example: [to divide the booty]
Bore: tiresome person, dullard, hole, uninteresting thing, caliber, diameter
Example: [The job was a total bore]
Borough: self-governing town, administrative district, section
Example: [Is it within our borough boundary, or is it in Ellersdeane parish?]
Bosom: the breast, person’s chest, (of a friend) intimate, to conceal
Example: [a bosom friend]
Botanical: Connected with the study or cultivation of plants
Example: [botanical garden]
Botanize: To study plant-life.
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Botany: The science of plants
Bouillon: clear beef soup
Example: [the cup of bouillon served by the stewards]
Bountiful: plentiful abundant
Example: [bountiful crops]
Bouquet: a bunch of flowers
Example: [gift a bouquet on birthday]
Bourgeois: middle class
Example: [It’s a bit bourgeois, isn’t it, joining a golf club]
Bovine: cow-like
Example: [a bovine virus]
Bowdlerize: To expurgate in editing
Bowler: In cricket the player who delivers the ball.
Boycott: abstain in protest
Example: [to boycott the meeting]
Brackish: salty
Example: [brackish wells]
Brae: hillside, slope, declivity, mountainside
Example: [We trooped with her down the brae to the wooden station. on the other side of the brae]
Braggadocio: someone who boasts
Example: [braggadocio manner]
Braggart: someone who boasts
Brandish: display, wield, exhibit, shake, wave menacingly
Example: [On his shoulders he bore the skin of a panther, his bow, and his sword, and he brandished two spears shod with bronze as a challenge to the bravest of the Achaeans to meet him in single fight]
Bravado: feigned bravery
Example: [his bravado got him in trouble]
Brawn: well-developed muscles, bodily strength
Example: [With all his brain and brawn, his real greatness was in his heart]
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