to bilk | to swindle, to cheat | |
billowing | swelling out in waves, surging | |
bivouac | temporary encampment | |
bizarre | fantastic, violently contrasting | |
to blanch | to bleach, to whiten | |
bland | soothing or mild/ agreeable | |
blandishment | flattery | |
blare | loud, harsh roar or screech/ dazzling blaze of light | |
blase | bored with pleasure or dissipation | |
blasphemy | irreverence, sacrilege, cursing | |
blatant | flagrant, conspicuously obvious, loudly offensive | |
bleak | cold or cheerless/ unlikely to be favorable | |
blighted | suffering from a disease, destroyed | |
blithe | gay, joyous, heedless | |
bloated | swollen or puffed as with water or air | |
bludgeon | club/ heavy-headed weapon | |
bluff | pretense of strength, deception/ high cliff | |
bluff (adj) | rough but good-natured | |
blunder | error | |
to blurt | to utter impulsively | |
to bluster | to blow in heavy gusts/ to threaten emptily, to bully | |
to bode | to foreshadow, to portend | |
bogus | counterfeit, not authentic | |
bohemian | unconventional in an artistic way | |
boisterous | violent, rough, noisy | |
to bolster | to support, to reinforce | |
bolt | door bar | |
to bolt | to dash or dart off/ to fasten a door/ to gobble down | |
bombardment | attack with missiles | |
bombastic | pompous, using inflated language | |
boon | blessing/ benefit | |
boorish | rude, clownish | |
boundless | unlimited, vast | |
bountiful | abundant, graciously generous | |