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Vocabulary 4
English I
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9th Grade
09/27/2010

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Term
balk

"A pirate balking at walking the plank."
Definition
to stop short and refuse to proceed

link: walk
Term
bandy

"Trick or Treaters like to bandy candy."
Definition
to trade; to give back and forth; to bat to and fro

link: candy
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barrage

"Our garage was barraged with eggs on Halloween."
Definition
a curtain of atrillery fire; any overwhelming attack, as of words or blows

link: garage
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battery

"Battery with a Battery"
Definition
the unlawful beating of a person; act of beating or pounding; any large group of related things

link: battery
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bauble

"A bull's bauble"
Definition
a small inexpensive trinket

link: bull
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bedlam

"Bedlam in the lamb's bed"
Definition
a place or scene of noisy uproar and confusion

link: bad lamb
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benighted

"A benighted knight"
Definition
being a state of intellectual darkness; ignorant ; unenlightened

link: knight
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bequest

"Joe's last bequest was to go west."
Definition
something left to someone in a will

link: go west
Term
bevy

"A bevy of heaves"
Definition
a group of animals; an assemblage

link: heavy
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bland

"After months at sea Columbus kissed the land, but found it bland."
Definition
lacking flavor or zest; dull

link: land
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