| A | B |
|---|
| blunder | error |
| blurt | utter impulsively |
| bluster | blow in havy gusts; threaten emptily; bully |
| bode | forshadow; portend |
| bogus | counterfeit; not authentic |
| bohemian | unconventional(in an artistic way) |
| boisterous | violent; rough; noisy |
| bolt | door bar; fastening pin or screw; length of fabric |
| bolt | dash or dart off; fasten( a door); gobble down |
| bombardment | attack with missiles |
| bombastic | pompous; using inflated language |
| booming | deep and resonant; flourishing, thriving |
| boon | blessing; benefit |
| boorish | rude; insensitive |
| boundless | unlimited vast |
| bountiful | abundant; graciously generous |
| bourgeois | middle class; selfishly materialistic; dully conventional |
| bovine | cowlike; placid and dull |
| bowdlerize | expurgate |
| boycott | refrain from buying or using |
| brandish | wave around; flourish |
| bravado | swagger; assumed air of defiance |
| brawn | muscular strength |
| brazen | insolent |
| breach | breaking of contract or duty; fissure or gap |
| breadth | width |
| brindled | tawny or grayish with streaks or spots |
| bristling | rising like bristles; showing irritation |
| brittle | easily broken; difficult |
| broach | introduce; open up |
| brochure | pamphlet |
| brooch | ornamental clasp |
| browbeat | bully; intimidate |
| browse | graze; skim or glance at casually |
| brunt | main impact or shock |
| brusque | blunt; abrupt |
| buccaneer | pirate |
| bucolic | rustic; pastoral |
| buffet | table with food set out for people to serve themselves; meal at which people help themselves to food that's been set out |
| buffet | slap; batter; knock about |
| buffoonery | clowning |
| bullion | gold and silver in the form of bars |
| bulwark | earthwork or other strong defense |
| bumptious | self-assertive |
| bungalow | small cottage |
| bungle | mismanage; blunder |
| buoyant | able to float; cheerful and optimistic |
| bureaucracy | over-regulated administrative system marked by red tape |
| burgeon | grow forth; send out buds |
| burlesque | give an imitation that ridicules |
| burly | husky; muscular |
| burnish | make shiny by rubbing; polish |
| bustle | move about energetically |
| buxom | plump; full bosomed |
| cabal | small group of persons secretly united to promote their own interests |
| cache | hiding place |
| cadaver | corpse |
| adaverous | like a corpse; pale |
| cadence | rhythmic rise and fall (of words or sounds); beat |
| calamity | disaster |
| caldron | large kettle |
| caliber | ability; quality |
| calligraphy | beautiful writing; excellent penmanship |
| callous | hardened; unfeeling |
| callow | youthful; immature; inexperienced |
| calorific | heat producing |
| calumny | malicious misrepresentation; slander |
| camaraderie | good fellow hip |
| cameo | shell or jewel carved in relief; star's special appearance in a minor role in a film |
| camouflage | disguise; conceal |
| conine | related to dogs; doglike |
| canny | shrewd; thrifty |
| cant | insincere expressions of piety; jargon of thieves |
| cantankerous | ill humored; irritable |
| cantata | story set to music, to be sung by a chorus |
| cater | slow gallop |
