English Vocabulary Builder

®   Benevolent: generous, charitable: His benevolent nature prevented him from refusing any beggar who approached him.

®   Benign: kindly, favorable, not malignant: The old man was well liked because of his benign attitude toward friend and stranger alike.

®   Berserk: frenzied: Angered, he went berserk and began to wreck the room.

®   Bifurcated: divided into two branches, forked: With a bifurcated branch and a piece of elastic rubber, he made a crude but effective slingshot.

®   Bigotry: stubborn, intolerance: Ahmad was shocked by the bigotry and narrowness expressed by his friend Rashid.

®   Bizarre: fantastic, violently contrasting: You look really bizarre in this dress.

®   Blandishment: flattery: Despite the salesperson’s blandishments, the customer did not buy this dress.

®   Blatant: loudly offensive: I regard your remarks as blatant and ill-mannered.

®   Bolster: support, prop up: I do not intend to bolster your hopes with false reports of outside assistance the truth is that we must face the enemy alone.

®   Bombastic: pompous, using inflated language: The orator spoke in a bombastic manner.

®   Bountiful: generous, showing bounty: She distributed gifts in a bountiful and gracious manner.

®   Breach: breaking of contract or duty, fissure, gap: There is breach in our security.

®   Bungle: spoil by clumsy behaviour: He bungled the deal and lost thousands of rupees.

®   Bureaucracy: official working in a government department: Many people fear that the constant introduction of federal agencies will create a government by bureaucracy.

®   Cache: hiding place: The detectives followed the suspect until he led them to the cache where he had stored his loot.

®   Callous: hardened, unfeeling: He had worked in the hospital for so many years that he was callous to the suffering in the wards.

®   Candor: frankness: The candor and simplicity of his speech impressed all.

®   Capacious: spacious: In the capacious areas of the rail-road terminal, thousands of travellers lingered while waiting for their train.

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