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bombast,
bombaster.nouns
grandiloquent,
pompous
speech or writing
bombastic.adjective
bombastically.adverb
bestow,
bestowed,
bestowing,
bestows.transitive
verbs
to present as a gift or an honor; confer.(bestowed
high praise on the winners); to give
bestowable.adjective
bestowal or bestowment.noun
biannual.adjective
happening twice each year; semiannual
biannually.adverb
biennial.adjective
lasting or living for two years; happening every
second year
Botany: having a
life cycle that normally takes two growing seasons to complete biennial.noun
an event that occurs every two years; a plant
that normally requires two seasons to complete its life cycle, growing
usually as a rosette in the first season and producing flowers and fruits
and then dying in the second season; a perennial
plant, such as the English daisy, cultivated as a biennial
biennially.adverb
besot,
besotted,
besotting,
besots.transitive
verbs
to muddle
or
stupefy, as with alcoholic
liquor or infatuation
by.preposition
close to; next to (the window by the door); with
the use or help of; through (we
came by the back road; by prayer and meditation we have access to the true
God; her parents were Canadian by birth); up to and beyond; past (we drove
by the house); in the period of; during (sleeping by day); not later than
(by 5:30 PM); in the amount of (letters by the thousands); to the extent
of (shorter by two inches); according
to (played by the rules); with respect
to (siblings
by blood); in the name of (affirmed
by the Bible to tell the truth); through the agency
or action of (a mouse was run over by a tire); (used to indicate
a succession
of specified
individuals, groups or quantities
(one by one they left; they were persuaded
little by little); used in multiplication and division (multiply 4 by 6
to get 24; used with measurements (a room 12 by 18 feet); used to express
direction with points of the compass (south by southeast)
by.adverb
on hand; nearby (stand by); aside; away (we put
it by for later); up to, alongside and past (the car raced by); into the
past (as years go by); marked by (they told us on top of the hill the road
would be marked by a sign as to
which way next)
by and large.adverb
for the most part; generally (by and large, the
play was a success)
by the way.adverb
incidentally
benign.adjective
of a kind and gentle disposition;
showing gentleness and mildness; kind; tending to exert a beneficial influence
or what appears to be such; favorable (the benign influence of pure air);
favorable
Medicine:-of
no danger to health; not recurrent or progressive; not malignant
(a benign tumor)
benignly.adverb
kindly (students gently guided away from their
dreams)
benignity.noun,.plural.benignities
the quality or condition of being kind and gentle;
a kindly or gracious act
bizarre.adjective
strikingly
unconventional and far-fetched
in style or appearance; odd
bizarrely.adverb
bizarreness.noun
banish,
banished,
banishing,
banishes.transitive
verbs
to force to leave a country or place by official
decree;
exile;
to drive away;
expel
(we banished all our doubts and fears)
banisher,
banishment.nouns
brittle, brittler,
brittlest.adjectives
likely to break, snap or crack, as when subjected
to pressure (brittle fossil bones); fragile;
difficult to deal with; snappish:
a brittle disposition;
brittle.noun
a confection of caramelized sugar to which nuts
are added (walnut brittle; peanut brittle)
brittlely.adverb
brittleness.noun
bower.noun,.plural.bowers
a shaded, leafy recess;
an arbor; a rustic
cottage; a country retreat
bower, bowered,
bowering,
bowers.transitive
verbs
to enclose in or as if in a bower; embower
bowery.adjective
a section
of New York; a farm
Nautical:.an
anchor carried at the bow
bonfire.noun.(from
bon = good, above average)
a large outdoor fire
burst, bursting,
bursts.verbs
intransitive
verb use.to come open or fly apart
suddenly, especially from internal pressure; to explode; to be or seem
to be full to the point of breaking open (the sacks were bursting with
grain); to emerge, come forth or arrive suddenly (burst out of the door);
to give sudden utterance or expression (burst out laughing; burst into
tears)
transitive verb use.to
cause to burst (burst the balloon); break; to exert
strong pressure in order to force something open
burst.noun,.plural.bursts
a sudden outbreak or outburst; an explosion; the
result of bursting, especially the explosion; an abrupt, intense increase;
a rush (a burst of speed; wind blowing in fitful
bursts)
benefactor.noun,.plural.benefactors
one that gives aid, especially financial aid;
one who benefits
on your efforts (taxes, etc.)
benefaction.noun,.plural.benefactions
the act of conferring
aid of some sort; a charitable
gift or deed
burden.noun,.plural.burdens
something that is carried; something that is emotionally
difficult to bear; a source of great
worry or stress; weight; the weight of the cargo carried by a vessel at
one time
burden, burdened,
burdening,
burdens.transitive
verbs
to weigh down; oppress;
to load or overload
burdensome.adjective
of or like a burden; onerous
burdensomely.adverb
burdensomeness.noun
better.adjective
comparative
of good; greater in excellence or
higher in quality than another of the same class, set or kind; more useful,
suitable
or desirable than another or others (found a better way to go; a suit with
a better fit than that one); more highly skilled or adept
than another or others (better at math than English); greater or larger
(spoke for the better part of an hour; a better chance of success; the
patient is better today)
better.adverb
comparative of well;
in a more excellent way; to a greater extent or degree (large dogs are
better suited to outdoors; likes it better without sauce); more (it took
me better than a year to finish building the garage)
better.noun,.plural.betters
one that is greater in excellence or higher in
quality than another or others (the vehicle with the better reliability
should be high on your consideration list)
better, bettered,
bettering,
betters.verbs
transitive verb use.to
make better; improve (the weather is trying to better itself when spring
comes; bettered myself by changing jobs); to surpass or exceed
intransitive verb use.to
become better
for the better.idiom
resulting in or aiming at an improvement (conditions
take a turn for the better when the attitude of people improves)
had better.idiom
ought
to; must (we had better go before the winter weather arrives)
think better of
to change one's mind about a course of action
after reconsideration
betterment.noun,.plural.betterments
an improvement over what has been the case (relationship
betterment); the betterment of something is the act or process of improving
its standard or status (his research is for the betterment of humanity);
a making or becoming better especially in someone's social and economic
position
best.adjective
superlative
of good; surpassing
all others in excellence, achievement or quality; most excellent (the best
performer; the best grade of ore);
most satisfactory, suitable or useful; most desirable (the best solution;
the best time for planting)
best.adverb
superlative of well;
in a most excellent way; most creditably or advantageously; to the greatest
degree or extent; most
best.noun
one that surpasses all others; the best part,
moment or value (in humanity's future, the best is still to come, butet's
get the best out of life now); the optimum
condition or quality (look your best; he was at his best speaking words
that were helpful); the supreme
effort one can make (doing our best); one's warmest wishes or regards (please
give them my best)
best, bested,
besting,
bests.transitive
verbs
to get the better of; beat; to outdo or outwit;
defeat
at best.idiom
interpreted most favorably; at the most (attendance
was held to no more than 40 people at best); under the most favorable conditions
(has a top speed of 20 miles per hour at best). for the best
get the best of.idiom
overcome someone to your advantage but to their
disadvantage
in the interest of
or in the interests of.idiom
to the advantage
of; for the sake of (he was thinking
in the interest of the whole family; ate breakfast on the train in the
interest of time)
Usage note: according
to rule 'better' should be used in comparisons between two things (which
vehicle has the better {not 'best'} reliability record?) not best) attendance
record? In certain fixed expressions, however, best is used idiomatically
for comparisons between two (put your best foot forward; may the best man
win!). See Usage note at well
and good. More
on usage of grammar
bill.noun,.plural.bills
a
draft
of a proposed law presented for approval to
a legislative body (the American
Bill
of Rights; Canadian
Bill of Rights); an itemized
list or statement of fees or
charges; an list of items bought; a list of particulars,
such as a theater program or menu; the entertainment offered by a theater;
a public notice, such as an advertising poster; a piece of paper money
(a ten-dollar bill) and a bill of exchange such a a promissory
note
a bill of goods.noun,.plural.bills
of goods
a consignment of merchandise
sold a bill of goods
something intentionally.misrepresented;
something passed off in a deception
or fraud
bill, billed,
billing,
bills.transitive
verbs
to present a statement of costs or charges to;
to enter on a statement of costs or on a particularized
list (bill it to them)
billable.adjective
bill.noun,.plural.bills
the horny part of the jaws of a bird; a beak
Nautical:.the
tip of the fluke of an anchor
bill, billed,
billing,
bills.intransitive
verbs
behave, behaved,
behaving,
behaves.verbs
intransitive verb use.to
conduct
oneself in a specified way (she
behaved well for so long and then just fell asleep); to conduct oneself
in a proper,
that is, unoffensive way; to act,
react,
function
or perform
in a particular way (this fabric
behaves well even in hot weather)
transitive verb use.to
conduct oneself properly (did you behave yourself at the party?)
behavior.or.behaviour.noun,.plural.behaviors.or.behaviours
the manner
in which one behaves; the actions or reactions of persons or things in
response to external or internal stimuli
behaviorally.adverb
behavioral.adjective
Bright, John.(1811-89)
British Parliament
member in 1843 for Birmingham, England.his
comment.on Britain glossing
over Nova Scotia's concerns
belabor, belabored,
belaboring,
belabors.transitive
verbs
to discuss repeatedly or at length; harp
on (she belabored the point); to attack with blows; hit, beat or whip;
to assail.verbally
bends.proper
noun
a manifestation
of decompression
sickness that is caused by the formation
of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and tissues after a rapid reduction in
the surrounding pressure and is characterized
by pain in the joints and abdomen (he came up to quickly from the deeper
water and got what's called 'the bends')
bend, bent,
bending,
bends.verbs
transitive verb use.to
bring something into a state.of
tension:
bend a bow; to cause to assume a curved or angular
shape (bend a piece of iron into a horseshoe; determined to take a course
of action (I was bent on going to the theater; the way
he drove his car sure looked like he was bent on going to hell); a
tendency,
disposition.or.inclination
("The natural bent of my mind was to science."....Thomas
Paine); to force to assume a different direction or shape, according
to one's own purpose ("Few will have the greatness
to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion
of events."....Robert
F. Kennedy Jr.)
intransitive verb use.to
deviate
from a straight line or position (the lane bends to the right at the bridge);
to assume a curved, crooked or angular form or direction (the saplings
bent in the wind; to incline the body; stoop;
to make a concession;
yield
bend.noun.plural.bends
the act or fact of bending; the state of being
bent; something bent (a bend in the road); bends; nautical
meaning, the thick planks
in a ship's side; the wales or the heavy planks, also called strakes, extending
along the sides of a wooden ship
around
the bend.idiom
insane;
crazy
(her instructions are so confusing
they drive everybody 'around the bend'); wacky
bend
someone's ear.idiom
to talk to at length, usually excessively
bent.noun,.plural.bents
a tendency,
disposition
or inclination;
dishonest;
corrupt (the big bent of the colonists
was to grab and steal land from those who rightfully possessed them so
their resources could be confiscated
bent.verb
past
tense and past
participle of bend
bent.adjective
determined
to take a course of action (I was bent on going to the theater; their bent
was aggressive but was based on sketchy
information); altered from an originally straight or even condition (pieces
of bent wire)
boon.noun,.plural.boons
a benefit.bestowed,
especially
one bestowed in
response to a
request;
a timely blessing or benefit
Britain/Great Britain
the island of Great
Britain during pre Roman, Roman and early Anglo-Saxon times before
the reign of Alfred the Great (871-899); name is derived from Brittania,
which the Romans used for the portion of the island that they occupied;
acts of union joined England with Wales in 1536 and with Scotland
in 1707 to create the political entity
of Great Britain with its
constitution
compare England,
United Kingdom; interesting how the cabal uses names to make them blend
in, making them not noticeable to most of the people in areas they are
subjugating;
their playbook is the same today with UNITED
STATES Inc. making most think that it's the United States government,
when it's really a foreign corporation owned by a few not even living in
the land area of America; they did the same with the
name Jew and more hijacks by the cabal, Australia,
Darwin's
writings and even
more one can research
Britain's 13 American Colonies
before 1763, circa
1750
British Empire (early 20th
century).in green
The British Empire, established over the course
of three centuries, began in the late 16th century with chartered commercial
ventures in sugar and tobacco plantations, slave trading, land grabbing
in the name of the Crown, genocide of the Indians they stole the land from
and missionary activities in North
America and the Caribbean Islands. During the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, the British Empire reached the height of its power, spreading
its forceful corruption and murder over large parts of Africa, Asia and
North America.
"British Empire,
Early 20th Century," Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 99. ©
1993-1998 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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