Part 10

geous, valiant, daring, bold, valorous, chivalrous, fearless, adventurous, dauntless, doughty, gallant, heroic, mettlesome, undaunted, venturesome, lion-hearted, manly, unafraid, plucky; showy, effective, striking. Antonyms: craven, timorous, cowardly, recreant, pusillanimous. See cowardly. brave, v. defy, dare, beard. bravery, n. intrepidity, courage, heroism, valor, prowess, hardihood, mettle, pluck, fearlessness, boldness. Antonyms: cowardice, timidity, recreancy, poltroonery, flinch. brawl, n. quarrel (noisy), dispute, mêlée, broil, rumpus, uproar. brawling, a. clamorous, disputatious, noisy, quarrelsome, jangling. brawny, a. stalwart, muscular, sinewy, robust, strong. brazen-faced, a. impudent, shameless, pert, immodest. breach, n. breaking, rupture; infraction, violation, trespass, nonobservance; hernia, rupture; falling out, alienation, disaffection, variance, difference; separation, ruption, disruption. bread, n. Associated Words: panification, panary, panivorous, crouton, zwiebach, panade, sop, crumb, crust, brewis, sippet, dough, knead, leaven. bread-basket, n. pannier. breadth, n. width, latitude; liberality, tolerance, catholicity. break, v. fracture, dispart, sever, rend, smash, shatter, shiver, splinter, batter, burst, rupture, crack; infringe, violate, disobey, transgress, trespass; communicate, disclose, divulge, tell, impart, broach; discipline, tame; bankrupt, impoverish, ruin. break, n. breach, rupture, fracture, fissure crack, chasm, gap, rent, rift, hiatus, cæsura, interstice. breakdown, n. downfall, collapse, crash. breaking, n. fracture, rupture; breach, infraction, violation. Associated Words: brittle, frangible, frangibility, tenacious, tenacity, inviolable, inviolability. breaking out. eruption, rash, efflorescence, exanthema; paroxysm. breaking out again. recrudescence. breakup, n. disruption, disorganization. breakwater, n. jetty, pier, mole, dike. breast, n. chest, bosom, thorax; teat, pap, dug, mamma. Associated words: amasty, pectoral, plastron, bib, gorget, mammillary, angina pectoris, areola, pectoriloquy, diaphragm, sternal. breast, v. stem, struggle with, withstand, resist. breastbone, n. sternum. breastpin, n. brooch, pectoral. breath, n. respiration. breathable, a. respirable. Antonyms: irrespirable, unbreathable. breathe, v. respire, inhale and exhale; infuse; wheeze, suspire, sigh, gasp, pant, aspirate; exhale, emit. breathing, n. respiration, inhalation (breathing in), exhalation (breathing out); aspiration, suspiration, sighing, panting, insufflation, gasp, wheeze, afflatus, inflation, pneuma; inspiration, theopneusty. Associated Words: eupnœoe, dyspnœoe, asthma, apnœoe, cachon, respiratory, gill, branchia, pneumodynamics, pneometry, suffocation, stertorous. breathless, a. panting. breech, n. buttocks. breeches, n. pl. smallclothes, knickerbockers, knee-breeches; trousers, pants. breed, v. beget, generate, procreate, engender, conceive and bear; nurture, train; occasion, originate, engender. breed, n. race, variety, strain, extraction, family, lineage, pedigree; class, sort, kind, variety. breeding, n. generation, procreation, begetting, prolification; stirpiculture, eugenics; nurture, training. Associated Words: dysgenesis, dysgenesic, hybrid, hybridization, thremmatology. breeding freely. prolific. Antonym: unprolific. breeze, n. zephyr; (Colloq.) disturbance, quarrel, tumult. breezy, a. airy, windy; (Colloq.) lively, spirited, animated, brisk. brew, v. foment, concoct, hatch, plot. bribe, n. hush-money, boodle (Slang).--v. suborn. bribery, n. subornation. bric-a-brac, n. virtu, knick-knacks. brick, n. adobe (unburnt and dried in the sun); malm-brick. bridal, a. nuptial, conjugal, hymeneal. bridge, n. trestlework, viaduct, culvert, pons, pontoon bridge, cantilever bridge. bridge, v. span. bridle, n. restraint, curb, check.--v. restrain, curb, check, control. brief, a. short-lived, ephemeral, transient, transitory; terse, concise. See short. brief, n. breviary, epitome, summary; writ, precept, breve. briefness, n. brevity. brier, n. thorn, bramble. brigand, n. highwayman, bandit, outlaw, robber, footpad, freebooter. bright, a. luminous, gleaming, lustrous, radiant, resplendent, glistening, beaming, shimmering, phosphorescent, luciferous, luminiferous, argent, orient, dazzling, glowing, glittering, flashing, scintillating, sparkling, refulgent, effulgent, brilliant, vivid, glossy, fulgent, naif, lucent, glaring, garish, crystalline; intelligent, precocious, apt, acute, discerning, clever, smart, knowing; auspicious, propitious; illustrious, glorious. Antonyms: dull, lackluster, obscure, dim, opaque, murky, nebulous, dingy, tarnished, sullied. brighten, v. polish, burnish, furbish; illuminate, irradiate, cheer, rally, enliven, inspirit. brightness, n. brilliancy, splendor, luster, luminosity, resplendence, radiance, refulgence, effulgence, glow; aptness, precocity, acuteness, sharpness, discernment; vivacity, animation, liveliness. brilliancy, n. brightness, resplendence, refulgence, brilliance. brilliant, a. sparkling, glittering, scintillating, dazzling, gleaming, glistening, flashing; splendid, glorious, signal, eminent, striking. brim, n. rim, border, margin, edge, brink, bank, marge. brimstone, n. sulphur. bring, v. fetch. bring about. bring to pass, effect, accomplish, effectuate, achieve. bring back. return, restore, replace; revive, resuscitate. bring forward. introduce. bring to. resuscitate, revive, reanimate. bringing to. resuscitation, revivification. bring on. incur. bring to pass. accomplish, effectuate. bring up. nurse, rear, nurture, train. brink, n. edge, border, verge. brisk, a. lively, spirited, sprightly, spry, agile, rapid. British soldier. Tommy Atkins. brittle, a. frangible, crisp, friable. brittleness, n. frangibility. Antonym: tenacity. broad, a. wide; extensive, extended, vast, wide-reaching, comprehensive; liberal, tolerant, catholic; indelicate, gross, questionable. broadside, n. placard, poster. broil, v. grill. broiler, n. gridiron. broiling, a. scorching, torrid, grilling. broken, a. fractured, splintered, shattered, shivered; disconnected, discontinuous, interrupted; impaired, shattered; subdued, humbled, contrite, penitent, crushed, trained, subjugated, tractable; violated. Antonyms: inviolate, intact, whole. broken-hearted, a. disconsolate, inconsolable, comfortless. broker, a. agent, factor, middleman, go-between. brood, v. incubate, sit; meditate (morbidly). brook, n. rivulet, runlet, rill, creek, streamlet, runnel, run, burn. brook, v. tolerate, suffer, endure, bear. broom, n. besom; whisk (small broom). brothel, n. house of prostitution, bawdy-house, brothelry. brother, n. Associated Words: fratricidal, fraternize, fratricide, brotherhood, brother german, brother uterine. brotherhood, n. fraternity, fellowship. brotherly, a. fraternal. brow, n. forehead. brown, a. dusky, tawny, dun, swarthy. brown race. Malayan. brown study. abstraction, revery, musing, preoccupation. bruise, v. contuse, ecchymose. bruise, v. indent, deface, disfigure. bruise, n. contusion, ecchymosis. bruiser, n. (Colloq.) boxer, pugilist. bruit, n. report, town talk, rumor, hearsay.--v. noise, abroad, report, tell, circulate. brush, n. brushwood; thicket, underbrush; grazing. brushwood, n. thicket, coppice, underbrush, brush. brutal, a. inhuman, cruel, fell, ruthless, truculent, unfeeling; beastly, bestial, brutish. brutality, n. inhumanity, cruelty, truculence. brute, n. beast; fiend, monster, ruffian, yahoo. brute, a. irrational. brutish, a. bestial, brutal, brute. bubonic plague. polyadenitis. buck, n. ram; beau, fop, blade, dandy. bud, v. pullulate, germinate, bourgeon. Buddha, n. Gautama Siddartha, Sakya Sinha. budding, n. gemmification, bourgeoning, gemmation. buffalo, n. bison; carabao (water buffalo). bugaboo, n. ogre, bugbear, bogy, fright, bullbeggar. bugbear, n. bugaboo, ogre, bogy, _bête noire_. build, v. erect, construct, raise. builder, n. architect; carpenter. building, n. erection, construction; edifice, structure, pile; architecture. businesslike, a. pragmatical. bulging, a. protuberant, convex, gibbous. bulgy, a. (Colloq.) bulging, gibbous, convex. bulk, n. mass, size, dimensions, magnitude, bulkiness; majority, mass. bulky, a. massive, ponderous, big. bull, n. Taurus; Minotaur; Apis. Associated Words: tauriform, taurine, bovine, bellow. bulldoze, v. (Colloq.) intimidate, browbeat. bullfight, n. Associated Words: arena, banderilla, banderillero, picadore. bullfighter, n. matador, toreador, tauridor, capeador, tauromachian. bullfighting, n. tauromachy. bullhead, n. (Colloq.) dolt, lout, lubber, dunderhead, beetlehead. bully, n. blusterer, swaggerer, roisterer, rowdy, rough. bully, a. (Slang) jolly, jovial; fine, excellent, good. bully, v. browbeat, overbear, swagger, bluster, intimidate. bullying, a. hectoring, swaggering, blustering. bulwark, n. rampart, fortification; defense, palladium, shield. bump, v. jolt, jounce, thump. bump, n. protuberance, prominence, lump, nodule, swelling. bumpkin, n. lout, boor, clodpoll, yokel, yahoo, hind. bumptious, a. (Colloq.) self-conceited, obtrusive, pushing. bunch, n. cluster, tuft, knot, tussock; raceme, racemation; protuberance, lump, nodule, hunch, bump; lot, collection, group, assortment, set. bundle, n. parcel, package, bale, pack, budget, packet. bung, n. stopper, tampoon, spigot, stopple; bunghole, vent. bunghole, n. bung, vent, vent-hole. bungling, a. unskillful, maladroit, inexpert, clumsy, inapt. bunker, n. bin, receptacle, crib. bunko, v. cheat, swindle, victimize. burden, n. load, cargo; incubus, encumbrance, weight, impediment, trial, oppression; chorus, refrain. burden, v. encumber, load, surcharge, oppress. burial, n. interment, inhumation, sepulture, entombment. Antonyms: disinterment, exhumation. burlesque, n. travesty, farce. burn, v. scorch, scald, singe, char, sear, cauterize, brand, consume, incinerate; cremate, incremate. burn, n. ambustion. burnable, a. combustible, inflammable. Antonyms: incombustible, asbestic. burning, n. combustion, cineration, incineration; cauterization, cautery; pyrography; arson; incendiarism; smoldering. burning, n. cremation, incremation. Associated Words: cremator, crematory, crematorium. bury, n. inter, inhume, entomb, sepulcher; hide, secrete, conceal, cache. Antonyms: disinter, exhume. burying-ground, n. cemetery. bush, n. shrub; thicket, jungle, underwood, boscage. bushwhacker, n. bushranger, guerrilla. business, n. vocation, calling, pursuit, craft, trade, occupation, profession; avocation; traffic, trade, commerce, enterprise, industry, barter; duty, function, work, place; affair, concern, matter. Associated words: commercial, mercantile, technical, technicality, technology. bustle, n. stir, agitation, tumult, ado, pother, commotion; bishop, tournure, pannier. busy, a. occupied, engaged, employed, engrossed; diligent, industrious, sedulous, active; intrusive, officious, meddlesome. butcher, v. slaughter. butter, n. Associated Words: butyric, butyrin, butyrometer, butyrate, dairy, creamery, churn, butterine, capric, caprylic, caproic acid, butyraceous. butterflies, n. pl. Lepidoptera. Associated Words: lepidopterist, lepidopteral, lepidopterous, caterpillar, larva. buttock, n. rump, fundament, breech; glutæus (muscle). buttress, n. support, stay, prop. buy, v. purchase. buyer, n. purchaser. buying, n. purchase. buzz, n. hum, murmur, bombinate; whiz. buzz