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Bucolic (adjective)
Related to the plague or other severe maladies
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The bucolic landscape inspired many painters
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Bellicose (adjective)
The bellicose chieftain wanted nothing more than to fight and kill his enemies
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Bane (noun)
A cause of misery or affliction
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A legal document such as an arrest warrent
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A person who commits fraud
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The place where two rivers meet
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Severe tooth pain was the bane of his existence
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Barren (adjective)
Describes dry or caustic wit
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The land was barren and the peasants went hungry
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Bourgeois (adjective)
Related to the upper middle class
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Specializing in custom or niche products
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The artist rejected the bourgeois values of his parents
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Brandish (verb)
To mark with a stamp of approval
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To swing a weapon back and forth
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The musketeer brandished his sword and the rapscallions fled in fear
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Beckon (verb)
To make a gesture that someone should come to you
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She beckoned to him and he approached
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Baleful (adjective)
Ominous; portending doom
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The raven's baleful squawk filled the man with dread
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Bedlam (noun)
There was bedlam in the streets after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup finals
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Behemoth (noun)
A windfall or inheritance
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One who attacks cherished beliefs
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One who lives in solitude
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Legends spoke of mighty behemoth living in the mountains
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Blithe (adjective)
Indifferent or careless
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Agnes showed a blithe disregard for traffic laws
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Blandishment (noun)
A flattering statement meant to persuade
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A very embarrassing situation
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Something added to a dish to make it less spicy
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The king was not immune to the blandishments of his court
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Bowdlerize (verb)
To coat with a thin layer of metal
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To commit fraud against
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To remove offensive parts of a text
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I have been obliged to bowdlerise the exact words he used
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Bohemian (noun)
A boastful, talkative person
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An uneducated person from a rural area
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One who lives an uncoventional, artistic lifestyle
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The head of a monastery
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The seedy neighborhood was home to beatniks, bohemians, and beggars.
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Benevolent (adjective)
The benevolent old man gave most of his money to charity
It's one thing to be able to make educated guesses on these and do pretty well on multiple choice. It's quite another to actually have them correctly incorporated into one's even semi-regular usage. I'd be far wprse with the latter than the former.