| A | B |
|---|
| blurt | to say something suddenly and impulsively |
| bogus | fake;counterfeit |
| boisterous | loud' lacking in discipline |
| bombastic | wordy or pompous in speech or writing |
| braggadocio | cockiness or a braggart |
| brevity | briefness; the quality of lasting a very shot time |
| brusque | abrupt or curt in speech or manner |
| bucolic | pleasant in a simple, rustic way typical of rural life |
| bumptious | pushy; assertive in a crude manner |
| burgeon | to grow or sprout |
| burnish | to polish |
| cache | a hiding place for small items (not for people) |
| cacophonous | sounding discordant; unpleasant to hear; the opposite of euphonious |
| cadaveritical | corpse, especially one intended for dissection |
| cajole | to coax; to gently persuage |
| callous | unfeeling; unsympathetic; hard-hearted |
| calumniate | to slander; t make maliciously false statements about; denigrate |
| calumn | slander; false statements made to injure someone |
| candor | frankness; openness |
| cantankerous | cranky; bad-natured; quarrelsome |
| capacious | roomy; spacious; having a large capacity |
| capitulate | to give in; to surrender |
| capricious | unpredictable; chnageable; fickle |
| captious | fault-finding; overly critical |
| carrion | dead and decaying flesh |
| castigate | to punish; to criticse severely |
| cathartic | having a cleansing, purifying effect |
| cauterize | to burn flesh, especially to aid in healing |
