Vocabulary English-English With B Part 1
Blaze (noun)
the visible signs of combustion (a fire)
- Once any blaze begins to threaten human life or property or there is high danger of wildfire, the blaze is to be stopped or controlled.
Bleak (adjective)
cold and forbidding; dark and depressing
- One bleak wintery day, a major snowstorm dumped 34 inches on Buffalo, New York.
Blemish (noun)
something that mars the appearance
- In addition to internal inclusions in a diamond, surface irregularities are referred to as blemishes.
Blend (verb)
to mingle in a way that is not readily noticeable
- But other poisonous animals blend into their environments, perhaps because they use their poisons to attack and disable prey.
Babble (verb)
to talk aimlessly or incoherently
- At approximately the age of six months, a child begins to babble, but many of the sounds he/she makes may not yet carry meaning for the child.
Backed (adjective)
characterized as promoting the interests or cause of or upholding or defending as valid
- The U.S. House earlier this year passed a Bush administration backed measure that would ban both types of cloning. The measure hasn't been acted on in the Senate.
Backsplash (noun)
the act of hurling or scattering a liquid in a reverse motion of its normal path
- At the lower end of the esophagus, a one way valve (the esophageal sphincter) prevents the backsplash of stomach contents upward into the esophagus.
Bald (noun)
without the usual covering
- Chemotherapy causes patients to become bald although it is usually a temporary condition.
Ballistic (adjective)
moving under the force of gravity only
- A method of stretching is ballistic which involves 'bouncing' in your stretch.
Balmy (adjective)
not severe, temperate
- It is balmy in Paris and the birds and the bees are busy.
Banal (adjective)
without freshness or appeal due to overuse
- At a garage sale, what may seem as banal objects to one person may be valued by another.
Bandage (noun)
a therapeutic material applied to a wound
- To stop the bleeding and to prevent infection, the paramedic put bandages on the woman’s cut arm.
Bard (noun)
someone who writes verse or poetry
- Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish hero and bard, published many works still read in college classes today.
Baron (noun)
a man of great power or influence in some field of activity
- Jesse Fish, a native from New York City, moved to St. Augustine where he became Florida’s first orange baron.
Baseline (noun)
a set of critical observations or data used for comparison or a control
- Sales calls made within one state will fall under the new rules, setting a national baseline above which states can set tougher guidelines if they wish.
Basin (noun)
the region drained by a river system, an area sunk below its surroundings
- Sitting just west of the Nevada boundary, in the basin and range district of the Mojave Desert, Death Valley is all but surrounded by mountain ranges, with a few roads connecting the valley to the outside world through narrow passes.
Befriend (verb)
to favor, to act as a friend to
- Later the Mozart children displayed (1763-66) their talents to audiences in Germany, in Paris, at court in Versailles, and in London (where Wolfgang wrote his first symphonies and was befriended by Johann Christian Bach, whose musical influence on Wolfgang was profound).
Belabor (verb)
to hit heavily and repeatedly
- It is not the point of this discussion to belabor the issues of abortion. Rather, we will examine why women choose to have one.
Berserk (adjective)
in a violent rage, especially to “go” berserk
- After finding out that his wife had cheated on him, the murder suspect allegedly went berserk and shot her five times.
Bestow (verb)
to convey as a gift -- usually used with on or upon
- According to tradition, Brigit took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the presence of the missionary bishop, Saint Patrick, who bestowed on her the nun's veil.
Bewildering (adjective)
difficult to understand or solve: puzzling
- From components to software to accessories, new PCs offer a bewildering array of choices, and for some folks, sifting through the large number of options can be daunting.
Bicentennial (adjective)
lasting two hundred years or occurring every two hundred years
- Maya Angelou returned to the United States in 1974 and was appointed by Gerald Ford to the Bicentennial Commission and later by Jimmy Carter to the Commission for International Woman of the Year.
Binding (noun)
the act of making fast or firmly fixed by means of a cord, rope, etc.
- A properly constructed shoe supports and protects the foot without any pressure or binding.
Bipedal (adjective)
a two footed animal
- Anatomical details indicate that A. anamnesis, a hominid whose remains were discovered by Leakey in 1995 in Kenya, to between 4.07 million and 4.17 million years ago, was capable of bipedal walking.
Birthmark (noun)
brown or red mark on one’s body from birth; a naturally occurring mark on an inanimate object
- Almost all diamonds contain very tiny natural birthmarks known as inclusions.
Bitter (adjective)
bitingly feeling or showing unfriendliness
- After the government lent the two companies money and gave them large sections of land for every mile they built, the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad became bitter rivals, with each company laying as much track as possible.
Bizarre (adjective)
departing from the customary
- The stars would be moving three times faster across the sky while observers at other points on Mercury's surface would see different but equally bizarre motions.
Blanketed (verb)
to extend over the surface
- One could see what the world was like when ice sheets a thousand feet thick blanketed Canada and northern Europe, or when the Indonesian volcano Toba blew its top in the largest volcanic eruption of the last half million years.
Blight (noun)
a deteriorated condition
- Think of the inner city and you envision images of physical blight, high crime and moral decay. But up against that bad news image, there's a good news reality-- and it's emerging in the heart of the inner city.
Blob (noun)
a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick ; a daub or spot of color
- A pink blob indicating above normal fire danger colors the map across eastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho, and then reaches down the Sierra Nevada through Southern California and into western Arizona.
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