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- bacchanalia: a revel.
- badinage: light, playful talk.
- badinage: playful raillery; banter.
- bagatelle: a trifle; also, a short, light literary or musical piece.
- bailiwick: a person’s specific area of knowledge, authority, interest, skill, or work.
- banal: commonplace; trivial
- bandog: a large and fierce dog.
- bedaub: to besmear or soil.
- bedaub: to besmear; also, to overdecorate.
- bedizen: to dress or adorn in gaudy manner.
- beholden: obliged.
- beholden: obliged; indebted.
- bellicose: inclined to or favoring war or strife.
- bellicose: warlike; pugnacious.
- bellwether: a leader of a movement or activity.
- bellwether: a leader or leading indicator.
- benefaction: the act of conferring a benefit; also, a benefit conferred.
- beneficence: the practice of doing good.
- benignant: kind; gracious; favorable.
- benison: blessing; benediction.
- berate: to scold severely or angrily.
- bestow: to give or confer.
- bete noire: something or someone especially hated.
- bete noire: something or someone particularly detested or avoided.
- bevy: a group; an assembly.
- bibelot: a trinket.
- bibulous: of, pertaining to, marked by, or given to the consumption of alcohol.
- bifurcate: to divide into two branches. bravura: a showy display.
- bilious: of or pertaining to bile; also, ill-tempered.
- billet: to quarter, or place in lodgings.
- billet-doux: a love letter.
- billingsgate: foul language.
- bivouac: a usually temporary encampment; also, to encamp.
- blackguard: a scoundrel.
- blandishment: flattering speech or action; allurement.
- blandishment: flattery intended to persuade.
- bloviate: to speak or write in a pompous manner.
- bombast: high-sounding words; an inflated style.
- bombast: pompous or pretentious speech or writing.
- bombinate: to buzz; to hum; to drone.
- bon ton: the height of the fashion; fashionable society.
- bonhomie: pleasant and easy manner; geniality.
- booboisie: a class of people regarded as stupid or foolish.
- bootless: unavailing; unprofitable; useless.
- bootless: unavailing; useless.
- boulevardier: a man-about-town.
- bouleversement: complete overthrow; a reversal.
- bowdlerize: to remove or modify the parts considered offensive.
- brackish: somewhat salty; also, distasteful.
- braggadocio: empty boasting.
- bravado: a real or pretended show of courage or boldness.
- bricolage: construction or something constructed by using whatever materials happen to be available.
- brio: liveliness; spirit.
- brio: vigor; vivacity.
- Brobdingnagian: gigantic; enormous.
- Brobdingnagian: of extraordinary height; gigantic.
- bromide: a commonplace or conventional saying.
- bucolic: rustic; pastoral.
- bumptious: crudely, presumptuously, or noisily self-assertive.
- bumptious: obtusely and offensively self-assertive.
- busker: a street musician or performer.
- buss: a kiss; to kiss.
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