World List Page 5

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avocation

Back 1

hobby

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avow

Back 2

declare openly

Front 3

avuncular

Back 3

like an uncle

Front 4

azimuth

Back 4

angle east or west from a north point

Front 5

backgammon

Back 5

a game played with pieces on a board

Front 6

badger

Back 6

to tease or annoy

Front 7

badinage

Back 7

banter

Front 8

baffle

Back 8

to perplex, frustrate

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baleen

Back 9

whalebone

Front 10

baleful

Back 10

destructive, deadly

Front 11

banal

Back 11

commonplace, trite

Front 12

baneful

Back 12

actively evil

Front 13

banter

Back 13

tease in a light, good-natured way

Front 14

baroque

Back 14

highly ornate

Front 15

barrister

Back 15

british term for a lawyer

Front 16

barter

Back 16

to trade by direct exchange of one commodity for another

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bastinado

Back 17

a beating on the soles of the feet

Front 18

bastion

Back 18

type of fortification

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bauble

Back 19

trifle; piece of finery or jewelry

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bazaar

Back 20

an exchange market place in the east

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bedizen

Back 21

deck with vulgar finery

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bedlam

Back 22

scene of wild confusion and uproar

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beguile

Back 23

mislead, deceive

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belabor

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to beat soundly

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bellicose

Back 25

warlike

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benediction

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blessing

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benign

Back 27

kindly

Front 28

berate

Back 28

scold vehemently

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besom

Back 29

a broom

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bestow

Back 30

to grant or confer

Front 31

bicameral

Back 31

consisting of two bodies

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biennial

Back 32

happening every two years

Front 33

bigot

Back 33

narrow-minded, intolerant person

Front 34

biped

Back 34

a two-footed animal

Front 35

blanch

Back 35

to bleach, make white

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blasphemy

Back 36

irreverence, sacrilege

Front 37

blatant

Back 37

too noisy, obtrusive

Front 38

blithe

Back 38

joyous, glad, cheerful

Front 39

bombastic

Back 39

pompous, high sounding, using inflated language

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bourse

Back 40

a foreign exchange

Front 41

bovine

Back 41

cowlike

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boycott

Back 42

to refuse to do business with or use

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brace

Back 43

a couple or pair

Front 44

brazen

Back 44

brassy, shameless

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brevity

Back 45

conciseness, terseness

Front 46

broach

Back 46

to tap or pierce a cask to let out the liquor, to open up for the first time, as in conversation.

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brochure

Back 47

a pamphlet

Front 48

bromide

Back 48

a type of sedative, a trite statement

Front 49

bruit

Back 49

to rumor

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brunt

Back 50

force or shock

Front 51

brusque

Back 51

blunt, curt in manner

Front 52

bucolic

Back 52

pertaining to a afarm, rural

Front 53

buffoon

Back 53

a clown

Front 54

bullion

Back 54

gold or silver in the form of bars

Front 55

burgeon

Back 55

to sprout

Front 56

burnish

Back 56

polish by rubbing

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butt

Back 57

to object of a jest

Front 58

buxom

Back 58

plump, jolly