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28 Cards in this Set
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banal
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hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality; cliched
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bane
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posion; cause of ruin; ADJ. baneful: harmful; poisonous
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bastion
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stronghold; something seen as a source of protection; Ex. the last bastion of male chauvinism
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beget
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father; become the father of; produce; give rise to
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belabor
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harp on; dwell on tediously; explain or go over excessively or to a ridiculous degree; assail verbally; beat severely; attack physically
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beleaguer
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besiege or attack (with an army); harass; beset
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belie
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contradict; give a false impression; disguise; Ex. The poor sales belied our high hopes; Ex. Her smile belies her true feeling of displeasure.
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belittle
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disparage; depreciate
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belligerent
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quarrelsome
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bemused
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confused; lost in thought; preoccupied
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benefactor
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gift giver; patron; person who does good or who gives money for a good purpose
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benevolent
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generous; charitable; having a wish to do good
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benign
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kindly; favorable; not malignant (disease); Ex. benign tumor
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bequest
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something left to someone in a will
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bereaved
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deprived of (someone beloved through death)
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beset
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harass or trouble from all directions; hem in
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blasphemy
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irreverence; sacrilege; cursing; bad language about God or holy things; V. blasphem; ADJ. blasphemous; CF. sacrilege
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blatant
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extremely (offensively) obvious; loudly offensive; Ex. blatant lie; N. blatancy
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blight
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disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys
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blithe (blithesome)
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gay; joyous
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bourgeois
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middle class; selfishly materialistic; too interested in material possessions
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bovine
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cowlike; placid and dull; slow-thinking; calm
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brevity
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conciseness; shortness of duration
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broach
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introduce as a subject; moot; open up
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bucolic
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rustic; pastoral
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bureaucracy
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overregulated administrative system marked by red tape; ADJ. bureaucratic
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burgeon
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grow rapidly; grow forth; send out buds; Ex. burgeoning computer industry; CF. bludgeon
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burlesque
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give an imitation that ridicules; imitate mockingly
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