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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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