bacchanalian

He gave a bachanalian party to welcome back an alien.

orgiastic; like wild druken revelry

Bacchus was the Roman god of wine, and the Bacchanalia was the festival devoted to him.

baleful

We could see from the proctor's baleful look that he was going to do something baneful to us.

baneful

We could see from the proctor's baleful look that he was going to do something baneful to us.

something that really is poisonous or deadly

(rhymes with painful)

barrister

What do barristers and sperm have in common? Both have a one in a million chance of turning out human.

lawyer

(Sorry, but we had have a lawyer joke in here somewhere. Please don't sue us.)

bawdy

Many bawdy jokes have to do with certain parts of the body.

obscene; coarse; humorous

(see lewd)

beatific

"Be terrific," said the Hare Krishna with a beatific smile.

begrudge

To be holding a grudge for so long against me means that you must begrudge me my happy life.

beguile

"The [Evil Testing] Serpent beguiled me and I did eat the apple." (Genesis 3:13)

belated

We sent a belated birthday present and in return got a month-old piece of ice-cream cake.

bellicose

You'll know you're sitting next to a bellicose person if during the test his sharpened number 2 pencil into your belly goes.

benevolent

Superman may be the benevolent protector of the world, but have you ever noticed that he wears his underpants outside his pants?

berate

If you don't get into college, your parents will berate you. If you don't do A work, your teachers will berate (B-rate) you.

bereft

He felt sad and bereft just thinking about how she didn't love him; now he would be left without her.

betroth

She discovered that he wasn't wearing a tuxedo - she really was bethrothed to a penguin.

biennial

My social life had been reduced to biennial parties.

every two years

Note: This word is decodable.

bland

I found the movie about the politics of cauliflower rather bland.

not stimulating; dull

Note: Remember, bland starts with bla.

blandishment

The sycophants obsequiously lavished me with blandishments. (Yes, you should look up each of these words.)

blighted

When much of California was blighted by fired, the former governor tried to drown his feelings of hopelessness in Bud Light.

boisterous

We have male cheerleaders at our school. When they get in front of the crowd, those boys stir us up until we're boisterous.

bombastic

At the end of his long, boring, bombastic speech, the self-satisifed tyrant recieved a bomb basket as a farewell gift.

braggadocio

Braggadocios tend to do a lot of empty bragging.

brevity

When Janet had a 20-page paper due, but wanted to go out, her friends suggested, "You can write your paper down with great brevity and brave a D."

brusque

The people who take tickets at the movies are always brusque, as though they're not genuinely interested in every single person who walks by them.

bucolic

The scene was bucolic, so we started to frolic, in our feet so bare, Whoops! The cow chips were there!

bumptious

The bumptious people bumped us out of line, so we gave them all fierce head-butts.

burgeon

Madonna's career burgeoned as soon as she changed the title of her unsuccessful song "Like a Burgeon."

burnish

One of the housekeeper's jobs was burnishing the furnishings.