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Banal (buh NAL)/(BANE ul) adj |
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Poison; torment; cause of harm |
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To give birth to; to create |
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To go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent. |
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Beleaguer (bih LEE gur) v |
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To surround; to besiege; to harass |
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To give a false impression of; to contradict |
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To make to seem little; to put someone down. |
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Belligerent (buh LIJ ur unt) adj |
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Combative; quarrelsome; waging war |
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Benefactor (BEN uh fac tur) n |
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One who provides help, especially in the form of a gift or donation. |
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Benevolent (beh NEV uh lunt) adj |
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Generous; kind; doing good deeds. |
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Something left to someone in a will |
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Deprived or left desolate, especially through death. |
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Blasphemy (BLAS fuh mee) n |
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Irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity |
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Unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring |
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Bourgeois (boor ZHWAH) adj |
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Middle class, usually in a pejorative sense. |
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To open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject. |
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Bucolic (byoo KAHL ik) adj |
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Charmingly rural; rustic; countrylike. |
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Bureaucracy ( byoo RAHK ruh see) n |
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A system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rules. |
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A ludicrous, mocking, lewd imitation. |
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