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Vocab Flash Cards Section # 16

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FLASH CARDS # 71 - 76






Flash card # 71




  • Bravery : The quality of being courageous

  • Bridge : To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty

  • Brightness : The quality of being luminous; emission of reflection of light

  • Brilliant : Distinguished by unusual mental keenness or alertness

  • Brittle : Having little elasticity, hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped




Flash card # 72




  • Broached : Made public; uttered; published first; put forth; introduces as a topic of conversation

  • Broadcast : A transmission of a radio, television program, or signal for public use

  • Broadcaster : Someone who broadcasts on radio or television

  • Brooding : Dwelling gloomily on a subject

  • Browse : To look around casually or randomly



Flash card # 73




  • Bruise : An injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration

  • Brusqueness : An abrupt discourteous manner; prompt roughness

  • Brutality : The trait of extreme cruelty

  • Buck : A male animal

  • Bucolic : Relating to or typical or rural life






Flash card # 74




  • Budget : A sum of money allocated for a particular purpose

  • Bug : To annoy, Insect(noun)

  • Bugbear : Something feared or disliked

  • Buggy :
    1. A light carriage with generally 2 wheels and pulled by two horses
    2. Baby carriage

  • Bullion : Gold and silver bars



Flash card # 75




  • Bullshit : Foolish insincere

  • Buffer : To protect from impact ("cushion the blow")

  • Bureaucrat : An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure

  • Butcher : A retailer or meat; a person who slaughters of dresses meat for market

  • Buttress : An external prop or support, usually or stone or brick, built to reinforce the integrity of a structure




Flash card # 76




  • Buyer : A person who makes purchases

  • Bygone : Well in the past; former ("bygone days")

  • Byline : The line giving the name of the writer of a story or article

  • Bypass : To avoid something unpleasant or laborious

  • Buzzword : A word or expression that has special significance in a particular field

  • Byzantine : Complex



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