| A | B |
|---|
| bedizen | dress with vulgar finery |
| bedraggle | wet thoughly; stain with mud |
| beleaguer | besiege or attack; harassed |
| belie | contradict; give a false impression |
| belittle | disparage or depreciate; put down |
| bellicose | warlike |
| belligerent | quarrelsome |
| benighn | kindly; favorable; not malignant |
| bequeath | leave to someone by a will; hand down |
| bestow | give |
| bilious | suffering from indigestion; irritable |
| bogus | counterfeit; not authentic |
| bolster | support; reinforce |
| bombastic | pompous; using inflated language |
| boorish | rude; clumsy; ungentlemanly |
| brusque | blunt; abrupt |
| bucolic | rustic; pastoral |
| burgeon | grow forth; send out buds |
| callous | hardened; unfeeling |
| calumny | malicious misrepresentation; slander |
| camouflage | disguise; conceal |
| capitulate | surrender |
| capricious | unpredictable; fickle |
| carnivorous | meat-eating |
| castigate | criticize severely; punish. |
| categorical | without exceptions; unqualified; absolute |
| celestial | heavenly |
| charisma | divine gift; great popular charm or appeal of a political leader |
| cherubic | angelic; innocent-looking |
| chicanery | trickery; deception |
| chimerical | fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; imaginative |
| clairvoyant | having foresight; fortuneteller |
| clandestine | secret |
| compunction | remorse |
| convivial | festive; gay; characterized by joviality |
| convoluted | coiled around; involved; intricate |
