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19 Cards in this Set
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besiege
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Surround
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bestial
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brutal
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bestow
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contribute
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betenoire
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A detested person
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betroth
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Give to in marriage
eg:-"The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son, Geoffrey, shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine." |
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bevel
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Two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
eg:-"Carvers put a bevel on both sides of the edge." |
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bevy
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A large gathering of people of a particular type
eg:-"he was surrounded by a bevy of beauties in bathing attire" |
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bibliophile
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booklover
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bicameral
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Composed of two legislative bodies
eg:-"A bicameral parliament at Stormont near Belfast was given control of domestic policy on matters that did not affect other parts of the United kingdom." |
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biennial
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Having a life cycle lasting two seasons
eg:-"parsnips and carrots are biennial plants often grown as annuals" |
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bigotry
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The intolerance and prejudice of a bigot
eg:-"Their own family experience had spelled out the horrors of bigotry and racial hatred; to these general and now somewhat distant things came the chilling reality of Adolf Hitler's seizure of power in Germany." |
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bilious
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Suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
eg:-"She had turned away from the food-processing factories and chemical plants spewing bilious yellow smoke to gaze towards the east, to the mouth of the Estuary where the river ran out into the North Sea." |
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bilk
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spoil
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bivouac
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camp
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blandishment
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The act of urging by means of teasing or flattery
eg:-"Edward came to Corfe from a hunt, and while his attendants were seeing to the dogs she allured him to her with female blandishment and made him lean forward." |
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blase
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bored
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blasphemous
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Characterized by profanity or cursing
eg:-"foul-mouthed and blasphemous" |
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blatant
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completely obvious
eg:-"blatant disregard of the law" |
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blather
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Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
eg:-"Jahsaxa merely raised an inquiring eyebrow at his blather." |
