The following are the important words starting with the letter ‘B’ which are frequently asked in various examinations. The word list contains the frequently used words, their meaning and synonyms.

Important Words – Letter B

Baroque : Highly ornate style fashionable in the arts

• Syn: Rococo, extravagant,elaborate,embellished

Beatitude : supreme blessedness or happiness

• Syn: Benison, invocation,bliss,delight

Bedlam : a scene full of disorder and noise

• Syn: chaos, pandemonium, commotion, furor

Befuddle : to confuse

• Syn: bewilder,muddle,disorient,distract

Behemoth : something enormous in size or power often a huge creature

• Syn: Goliath, colossus, mammoth

Beleaguer : to besiege by encircling

• Syn: badger, bedevil, beset, blockade

Bellicose : quarrelsome or hostile nature, warlike

• Syn: belligerent, contentious, destructive, disruptive

Benediction : blessing

• Syn: approbation, approval, beatitude

Benison : blessing

• Syn: approbation, approval, beatitude, Benedictines

Berate : to scold or rebuke severely

• Syn: chide, reprimand, castigate, censure

Besmirch : to make dirty,soil

• Syn: blacken, calumniate, denigrate, discredit

Bibulous : addicted to or fond of alcoholic liquor

• Syn: imbibing, penetrable, permeable, thirsty

Bilious : (i) suffering from  indigestion (ii) having a peevish disposition, ill humored

• Syn:nauseated,squeamish,mawkish,morose

Bivouac : a temporary camp or shelter

• Syn: billet, dormitory, encampment, garrison

Blandishment : flattery intended to persuade

• Syn: commendation, fawning, sycophancy, worship

Blarney : flattery,fawning,over praise

•  Syn: adulation, blandishment, coaxing, exaggeration

Blasé : bored due to over indulgence,jaded

•  Syn: cynical,disenchanted,disillusioned,jaded

Blasphemy : profane or contemptuous speech,writing or action

•  Syn: impiety, sacrilege, irreverence, desecration

Blighted : spoiled , damaged

•  Syn: catastrophic, disastrous-hapless,inauspicious

Blithe : cheerful disposition, carefree

•  Syn: animated, gay, jocund, jovial

Bludgeon : a short  club with a heavy loaded end

•  Syn: cudgel, mallet, staff, truncheon

Bohemian : a person  with artistic or literary interests who disregards  conventional standards of behaviour

• Syn: iconoclast,maverick,non conformist,radical

Bombastic : pompous,grandiloquent

• Syn: grandiose, highfalutin, histrionic, ostentatious

Bonhomie : pleasant camaraderie

•  Syn: affability, amiability, amiableness, geniality

Bowdlerize : to remove passages considered offensive

•  Syn: expurgate, exscind, purge

Brackish: somewhat salty

• Syn: saline, pungent, acrid, briny

Braggadocio: a braggart,pretentious,boast

•  Syn: haughtiness, hubris, imperiousness, pomposity.

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