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babe
doll, fox, See: Thesaurus:beautiful woman, beautiful person
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baby
babe, babby, babbie, infant, bab
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backbone
spine, spinal column, vertebral column
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backpack
book bag, bookbag, booksack, haversack, knapsack
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backup
reserve, spare
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backward
reversedly, in reverse, dated, obsolete, primitive
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backwoods
backwood
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bacon
ham, pork
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bad
abandoned, abominable, base, deficient, corrupt
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badge
emblem, keycard or ID card or access card, pin
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bah
blech, bleck, faugh, faw, foh
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bailiff
steward, overseer
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balance
counterbalance, equilibrate, equilibrize, equipoise, poise
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Balkan
Balkanic, Balkanian
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ball
sphere, globe, testicle
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ballistic
ballistical
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bam
bang, blam, pow, wham, dishoom
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bandit
bandito, brigand, latron, rapparee
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bang
strike, blow, explosion, blam, boom
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banishment
exile
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banker
sure thing
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banking
bankerage
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bao
dim sum
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barbarian
outlander, peregrine
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bareback
condomless
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barefoot
barefooted, discalced, shoeless, unshod, unshoed
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bargain
agree, come to terms, contract, covenant, deal
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barge
lighter
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Barney
row, have a barney, squabble, or see Thesaurus:squabble
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barnyard
farmyardy
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barren
sterile, fruitless
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barter
chaffer, swap, swop, trade, quid pro quo
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basal
basilar
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baseless
idle, footless, groundless, unfounded, ungrounded
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bashful
shy, blushful, sheepish
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basically
fundamentally, more often than not
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bastard
bantling, bastardling, bastid, batchelor's son, by-blow
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bathroom
latrine, necessarium, toilet, toilet room, urinal
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Bathsheba
Bathshua
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batman
man, maund
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baton
wand, rod, bat, club
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batsman
hitter, batter
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batter
batsman
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batting
bat, batt
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be
get
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beach
strand
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beamed
scammed
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beanbag
beanbag chair
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beanie
knit cap, knit hat, skull cap, skullie, skully
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bear
bruin, ursid
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beating
ass beating, ass kicking, battering, beatdown, boom-boom
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beautiful
beauteous, attractive, fair, cute, good-looking
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beauty
gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness, looker, good looker
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because
since, for, for that, on account of, forthy
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bedroom
bedchamber, sleeping quarters
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bee
king of insects
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beep
bleep, blip, boop, chirp, meep
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beer
ale, amber fluid, amber nectar, bitter, brew
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beeswax
E901
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befall
occur, transpire
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beg
beseech, entreat, sue
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beggar
almsman, almswoman, cadger, caird, clochard
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begin
commence, go, inchoate, initiate, open
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beginner
amateur, newbie, abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice
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beginning
birth, font, fount, inauguration, initiation
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behavior
comportment, conduct, demeanor, deportment
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behold
lo
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belief
assumption, premise, faith, opinion, tenet
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belly
abdomen, midriff, stomach, tum, tummy
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below
under, beneath, underneath
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belt
restraint, safety belt, seat belt
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ben
drumstick tree, horseradish tree, moringa
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benchmark
kitemark, yardstick
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bend
bow, courb, curb, curl, curve
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bender
I don't think, not, over the bender, over the left, over the left shoulder
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benefit
help, batten, behoove
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bent
predilection, proclivity, propensity
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bequeath
leave
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bequest
bequeathal, legacy, gift, donation
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besides
on top of, save for
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best
all that and a bag of chips, antelope's cantaloupes, ant's pants, bee's knees, cat's ass
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betray
burn, cop out, cross out, cross up, double-cross
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betrothal
betrothment, affiance
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between
atween, atwix, atwixt, betwixt, betwixte
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beverage
beveridge, drink, libation, liquor, potable
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beyond
ayond, ayont
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biblical
biblic
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bicker
wrangle
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bicycle
wheel, bike, celeripede, cycle, velocipede
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bigotry
bigotness
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bilingual
two-tongued
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binary
black-and-white
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biological
biologic
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biology
lifelore
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bird
avian, birdie, feathered friend, fowl
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birdhouse
nest box, nesting box
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birthplace
birthstead
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bisexual
perfect, hermaphrodite, bi, AC/DC, ambisextrous
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bishop
diocesan bishop, suffragan bishop, ordinary, hierarch, consecrator
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bitch
jerk, punk, gunsel
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bitter
acrid, caustic, acerb, acerbic, bittersome
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bitterness
acerbicness, acridity, acridness, acerbity, alkalinity
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blab
gossiper, gossip
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black
atramental, atramentous, black as a dog's guts, black as coal, black as Newgate's knocker
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blacken
black, black up, blackwash, blatch, bletch
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blame
accuse, atwite, bumble, challenge, cop out
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bleach
blanch
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blimp
barrage balloon, Gossage, nonrigid, blimp out, blimp up
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blindness
ablepsy, blindhood, cecity, sightlessness
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blink
nictitate
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blinking
blimming, blooming
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blissful
ecstatic, elated, euphoric, joyful, orgasmic
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blister
bleb, blain, vesicate
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blockade
embargo
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blockage
obstruction, occlusion, lodgment
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blond
flaxen, Traditional terms for light hair are fair(-haired), fairheaded, tow-haired, yellow-haired
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bloodshed
bloodletting, bloodbath, carnage
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bloom
blossom, flower, flourish, thrive
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blouse
bodice
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blowfish
balloonfish, globefish, puffer, pufferfish, swellfish
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blue
azure, cerulean, navy, sapphire, X-rated
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blueprint
road map, schematic, action plan, layout
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bluish
bluey, caesious, cerulescent
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blunder
goof, howler
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blunt
blunten
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blush
flush, pinken, redden
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boast
brag, crow, vaunt
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bodhisattva
mahasattva
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bodily
corporal, corporeal, carnal, physical
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body
bod, bones, flesh, carcass, likam
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bog
morass. See swamp
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boink
bang, get it on, have sex, copulate with
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bold
embolden
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bollocks
Horlicks
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Bollywood
Urduwood
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bombard
bomb
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bond
stick
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bone
os
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boner
erection, hard-on, stiffy
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bookkeeper
accountant
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bookseller
bibliopole, bibliopolist, bookman
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bookstore
bookshop
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booming
resounding
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boot
buskin, mukluk
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booty
boodle, fang, gizzit, haul, hot property
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booze
grog
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bore
banality, snooze, snoozer
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boring
dull, mind-numbing, tedious, banal, basic
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borrow
creance, desume, scunge
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borscht
barszcz
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boss
administrator, chief, director, commander, governor
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bossy
autocratic, coercive, controlling, despotic, dominant
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bottle
baby's bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle
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bottomless
limitless, unbottomed, unbounded
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bourbon
bourbon and branch, bourbon cream, Bourbon whiskey
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bower
boudoir
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boxed
boxed up, packaged, packed
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boy
manservant, bhoy, boyo, boykin, callant
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boycott
embargo
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brace
twosome
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bracket
parentheses, parens
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brain
encephalon, harns
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branch
ramify
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brave
adventurous, mettlesome, aweless, bad, bold
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bravery
braveness, courageousness, fearlessness, courage, pluck
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breach
break, gap, rift, rupture
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break
burst, bust, shatter, shear, smash
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breakfast
break one's fast
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breakout
jailbreak, prison break
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breastfeed
boobfeed
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breathe
live and breathe, draw breath, inbreathe, spire, suspire
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breather
moratorium, recess
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breeze
cakewalk, cinch, doddle, piece of cake, walk in the park
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brethren
Dunkard, Dunker, German Baptist Brethren, German Baptist, Tunker
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bribe
backhander, bung, coffee money, cold drink money, dash
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bridle
restrain
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briefcase
attaché case
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briefly
summarily, temporarily, transiently
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briefs
underwear
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brim
bulge
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broadcast
widespread
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broken
banjaxed, bum, busted, fractured, ruptured
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brothel
bagnio, bawdy house, bawdyhouse, brothel house, cat house
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brotherhood
fraternity, association, fellowship, sodality, brethren
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brow
forehead
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bruh
dude, bro
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bruise
contusion
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bubbly
sparkling
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buccaneer
privateer, pirate
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Buddhist
Bauddha, follower of the Buddha, Dhamma practitioner, Buddha follower, Sakyan
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budge
shift
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buggered
kaput, stuffed, in for it, done in, exhausted
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build
artifice, betimber, assemble, compile, edify
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building
edifice, wark
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bulldog
English bulldog
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bulldozer
blade
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bumpkin
bogan, boor, chawbacon, chuff, churl
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bureaucrat
administrator, clerk, mandarin, paper-pusher, pen-pusher
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burn
combust, forburn, outburn, go up, torch
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bursting
busting
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bushed
beat
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busted
out of order
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busy
swamped
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but
abbur
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butane
E943a
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butcher
flesher, slayer
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butchered
debased, degraded
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butler
footman
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buy
make a buy, aby, procure, snap up
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buyer
purchaser, vendee
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buzzard
buteo, broadwing, turkey vulture, vulture
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buzzkill
killjoy, wet blanket, party-pooper
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