| boon | blessing; benefit; something very helpful |
| boor | rude, insensitive person |
| boorish | rude; insensitive |
| boost | lift by pushing up from below; increase; raise; N: push upward; increase |
| botch | mismanage; blow |
| bouillon | clear beef (or meat) soup |
| bound | leap or spring; limit or confine; constitute the limit of; Ex. bounded by Canada; N: leap or jumping; boundary; ADJ: certain; having a duty to do something (legally or morally); confined by bonds; Ex. We are bound to be late; Ex. I am bound to |
| bountiful | generous; graciously generous; showing bounty |
| bourgeois | middle class; selfishly materialistic; too interested in material possessions |
| bout | match; short period of great activity; Ex. wrestling bout; bout of drinking/flu |
| bovine | cowlike; placid and dull; slow-thinking; calm |
| bowdlerize | expurgate; CF. Thomas Bowdler |
| brackish | somewhat saline |
| brag | boast |
| braggadocio | boasting |
| braggart | boaster; bragger |
| braid | plait; interweave strands or lengths of; make by weaving strands together; N: braided segment (as of hair) |
| brand | trademark; mark burned on the hide of an animal; mark burned into the flesh of criminals; mark of disgrace; V: mark with a brand; give a lasting bad name; stigmatize; Ex. The press branded him a liar. |
| brandish | wave around (a weapon); flourish |
| bravado | swagger; assumed air of defiance; false show of bravery |
| brave | face courageously; Ex. brave the storm |
| brawl | noisy quarrel |
| brawn | human muscle; muscular strength; sturdiness |
| brawny | muscular; having well-developed muscles |
| brazen | insolent; without shame; bold; Ex. brazen lie; V: face with bold self-assurance or with unshamed confidence |
| breach | breaking of contract or duty; fissure or gap; opening; V. |
| breadth | width; extent |
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