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Bacchanal
- noisy party with a lot of drinking
- S.orgy (wild party) ; debauch
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Baleful
- full of menacing (threatening) or malign influences ; pernicious (harmful)
- S.injurious ; evil ; deadly
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Banal
- A.original
- commonplace ; trite
- S.bland ; flat ; sapless ; vapid (insipid ; uninspired ; colorless) * sap = juice
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Bane
- poison ; cause of ruin ; plague ; a cause of great distress or annoyance
- S.contagion ; venom ; virus
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Bate
- let down ; lessen the force ; moderate ; restrain
- S.abate ;ebb(diminish) ; slacken(loosen;release;relax;slow)
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Bawdy
- indecent ; lewd(rude ; offensive in sexual way) ; obscene
- S.lascivious (often offensive sexual desire) ; salacious (treating sexual matters in an indecent way) ; raunchy(vulgar;sexually explicit;earth,unrefined)
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Beatific
A.miserable ; sorrowful ; unhappy
- giving or showing bliss ; blissful
- S.delightful ; happy ; joyful
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Bedraggle
- wet thoughroughly ; dirty ; disheveled (untidy ; disorder)
- S.shabby ; dilapidated (ruin) ; seedy(sordid) ; tattered (torn, old in generally poor condition)
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Beguile
- deceive ; mislead or delude ; cheat ; pass the time pleasantly ; charm or attract
- S.manipulate ; exploit ; maneuver (perform a movement, carefully guide)
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Belied
A.prove ; verify ; support
- to show to be false ; contradict ; fail to give a true notion or impression of
- S.refute(prove to be wrong,disprove,deny) ; controvert ; gainsay (deny, contradict, speak against)
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Bellicose
A.calm ; passive ; peaceful
- inclined or eager to fight ; aggressively hostile ; belligerent
- S.aggressive ; combative ; threathening
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Benevolent
A.malevolent
- organized to benefit charity , kindly ex. benevolent smile
- S.generous ; considerate ; magnanimous (very generous)
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Benign
A.malign
- showing kindness ; gentleness and mildness
- S.good-hearted
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Bereft
A.full ; happy
- deprived ; lacking , missing
- S.destitute (lack) ; fleeced ; robbed ; stripped (remove all coverings from ; leave bare of accessories ; deprive someone of)
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Beset
- harass or trouble from all directions , hem in (surround and restrict the space or movement)
- S.attack ; assail ; assault
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Besiege
A.leave alone
- surround with armed forces in order to capture it) ; assault
- S.assail ; congregate , invest ; trap
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Betoken
- signify ; indicate ; be a sign of
- S.indicate ; announce ; testify
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Bevy
- a large group
- S.assembly ; band ; cluster ; party
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Bilk
- cheat ; evade ;elude ; swindle (use deception to deprive someone of money or possessions ; obtain money fraudulently
- S.beat ; foil ; ruin ; defraud
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Bivouc
- a temporary encampment esp. one made by soilders
- S.camp ; tent
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Blandishment
- speech or action intended to coax(persuade) someone into doing something
- S.adulation ; blarney (persuade) ; oil
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Blase
- bored with pleasure or dissipation(overindulging in sensual pleasure) ; uninterested
- S.disenchanted
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Blighted
- suffering from a disease ; destroyed
- S.damned ; cursed
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Blithe
A.atrabilious (melancholy ; ill-tempered) ; morose
- gay , joyous
- S.cheerful; chirpy (lively) ; lightsome ; sunny
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Bolster
- to support with or as if with a bolster to buoy up.
- S.brace ; carry ; sustain ; uphold
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Bombast
- grandiloquent (extravagant in language, style, manner) ; pompous speech
- S.highfalutin (pompous or pretentious) ; rant ; rhetoric (the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, esp. the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques)
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Bombastic
A.humble ; quite reserved ; restrained
- high-sounding, used to impress people ; pretentious
- S.balderdash (senseless talk) ; grandiose ; ostentatious (pretentious display) ; swollen ; verbose
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Boon
- blessing ; benefit ; sth very helpful
- S.gift ; benevolence ; favor
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Boorish
A.charming ; cultured ; polite
- unmannered ; crude ; awkward
- S.barbaric (savagely cruel, brutal, unsophisticated) ; cantankerous (bad-tempered) ; uncouth (lacking good manner); vulgar
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Bourgeois
A.adventurous ; imaginative ;original
- middle class ; selfishly materialistic ;too interested in material possessions
- S.common ; conventional ; traditional
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Braggart
- one given to empty boasting
- S.blowhard ; gasbag
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Brevity
- conciseness ; shortness of duration
- S.abridgment ; brief ; synopsis (brief summary)
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Brindled
- tawny or. grayish with streaks or sports
- S.dappled (mark with spots or rounded patches)
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Brocade
rich ; figure fabric
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Brusque
- abrupt and curt in manner or speech
- S.bluff ; brief ; gruff(abrupt)
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Bucolic
- pertaining to shepherds, rural or rustic
- S.pastoral ; agricultural
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Burgeon
- to grow or flourish ; a bud or new growth (thrive; prosper)
- S.increase ; augment ; build ; multiply
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Burlesque
- give an imitation that ridicules ; imitate
- S.mockery ; caricature ; farce ; sham(pretense ; fake ; charlatan)
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Buttress
- to support
- S.support ; brace ; shore ; underpinning (a solid foundation laid below ground level to support building)
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