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27 Cards in this Set
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Bona Fide |
sincere; done or made in a good faith; authentic; genuine |
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Boon |
a blessing; a benefit |
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Boor |
a rude or churlish person |
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Booty |
goods taken from an enemy in war; plunder; stolen or confiscated goods |
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Botch |
to bungle; to ruin through poor or clumsy effort |
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Bourgeois |
middle class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional |
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Bovine |
cow related; cowlike |
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Bracing |
invigorating |
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Brandish |
to wave or displace threateningly |
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Bravado |
a false show or ostentatious show of bravery or defiance |
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Brawn |
big muscles; great strength |
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Brazen |
impudent; bold |
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Breach |
a violation; a gap or break |
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Brevity |
briefness |
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Brink |
edge |
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Bristle |
to stiffen with anger; to act in a way suggestive of an animal whose hair is standing on end; to appear in some way similar to hair standing on end |
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Broach |
to open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject |
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Bromide |
a dull, obvious, overfamiliar saying; a cliche |
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Brouhaha |
uproar; hubbub |
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Brusque |
abrupt in manner; blunt |
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Bucolic |
charmingly rural; rustic; countrylike |
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Buffoon |
a joker, especially one who is coarse or acts like an ass
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Bulwark |
a wall used as a defensive fortification; anything used as the main defense against anything else |
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Bureaucracy |
a system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rules; any large administrative system characterized by inefficiency, lots of rules and red tape |
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Burgeon |
to expand; to flourish |
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Burlesque |
a ludicrous, mocking, lewd imitation |
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Byzantine |
extremely intricate or complicated in structure; having to do with the Byzantine Empire |
