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1. the district within which a bailiff has jurisdiction.
2. a person's area of skill, knowledge, authority, or work: to confine suggestions to one's own ~.

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bailiwick

Front 2

1. senseless, stupid, or exaggerated talk or writing; nonsense.
2. Obsolete. a muddled mixture of liquors.

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balderdash

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–noun
1. a mode of punishment consisting of blows with a stick on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.
2. a blow or a beating with a stick, cudgel, etc.
3. a stick or cudgel.
–verb (used with object)
4. to beat with a stick, cane, etc., esp. on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.

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bastinado

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–noun
1. a ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the commonplace; anticlimax.
2. insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness.
3. triteness or triviality in style.

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bathos

Front 5

–verb (used with object)
to dress or adorn in a showy, gaudy, or tasteless manner.

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bedizen

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–noun
1. a dance in bolero rhythm that originated in Martinique.
2. a modern social dance based on the ~.
3. music for either of these dances.

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beguine

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–noun
1. an animal, perhaps the hippopotamus, mentioned in Job 40:15–24.
2. any creature or thing of monstrous size or power: The army's new tank is a ~. The cartel is a ~ small business owners fear.

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behemoth

Front 8

an old woman, esp. an ugly one; hag.

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beldam

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–verb (used with object)
1. to soil; tarnish; discolor.
2. to detract from the honor or luster of: to ~ someone's good name.

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besmirch

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1. A small decorative object; a trinket.
2. A miniature book, especially one that is finely crafted.

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bibelot

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–noun
1. Nautical.
a. either of the rounded areas that form the transition between the bottom and the sides on the exterior of a hull.
b. Also, ~s. (in a hull with a double bottom) an enclosed area between frames at each side of the floors, where seepage collects.
c. Also called ~ well. a well into which seepage drains to be pumped away.
d. Also called ~ water. seepage accumulated in ~s.
2. Slang. ~ water (def. 2).
3. the widest circumference or belly of a cask.
–verb (used without object)
4. Nautical.
a. to leak in the ~.
b. (of white paint) to turn yellow.
5. to bulge or swell out.
–verb (used with object)
6. Nautical. to damage (a hull bottom) so as to create an entry for seawater.

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bilge

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–noun
1. plating of iron or steel for making the shells of `s, covering the hulls of ships, etc.
2. Journalism.
a. syndicated or ready-to-print copy, used esp. by weekly newspapers.
b. trite, hackneyed writing.
3. the detailed standard wording of a contract, warranty, etc.
4. Informal. phrases or units of text used repeatedly, as in correspondence produced by a word-processing system.
5. frozen, crusty, hard-packed snow, often with icy patches.

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boilerplate

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–verb (used with object), -ized, -iz‧ing.
to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.

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bowdlerize

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–noun
1. a leafy shelter or recess; arbor.
2. a rustic dwelling; cottage.
3. a lady's boudoir in a medieval castle.
–verb (used with object)
4. to enclose in or as in a ~; em~.

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bower

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to bear; suffer; tolerate: I will ~ no interference.

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brook(verb)

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–verb (used with object)
1. to voice abroad; rumor (used chiefly in the passive and often fol. by about): The report was ~ed through the village.
–noun
2. Medicine/Medical. any generally abnormal sound or murmur heard on auscultation.
3. Archaic. rumor; report.
4. Archaic. noise; din; clamor.

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bruit

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a delight in being alive; keen, carefree enjoyment of living.

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joie de vivre

Front 18

1. a small group ruling a country, esp. immediately after a coup d'état and before a legally constituted government has been instituted.
2. a council.
3. a deliberative or administrative council, esp. in Spain and Latin America.

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junta

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1. An economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of or interference in commerce beyond the minimum necessary for a free-enterprise system to operate according to its own economic laws.
2. Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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laissez-faire

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adv.

1. Tomorrow.
2. At an unspecified future time.

n.
An indefinite time in the future.

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manana