mmencement, inception, opening, outset, initiation,
indication, incipience, nascency, incipiency, threshold, tyronism,
novitiate; origin, source.
beginning again. resumption, recommencement.
begone, interj. avaunt.
beguile, v. insnare, mislead, lure, deceive, cheat; while away.
beguilement, n. imposition, deception.
behave, v. deport one's self, act, bear.
behavior, n. conduct, deportment, actions, demeanor.
behead v. decapitate, decollate, execute.
beheading, n. decapitation, decollation, execution.
behindhand, a. and adv. in arrears; dilatory, late, tardy,
unpunctual.
beholden, a. obliged, indebted, bound.
beholder, n. spectator, witness, onlooker, eye-witness.
being, n. existence, entity. Antonyms: nonexistence, nonentity.
Associated Words: ontology, metaphysics, ontological, ontologist.
belch, v. eruct, expel, throw up; eructate.
belching, n. eructation.
belfry, n. bell-tower, campanile. Associated Words: louver
boarding.
belief, n. credence; persuasion, faith; conviction, assurance,
confidence; tenet, dogma, creed, opinion, doctrine, cult, view, principle;
intuition; superstition, fanaticism. Antonyms: doubt, disbelief,
skepticism, misgiving, incredulity. Associated Words: credulous,
incredulous, credulity, credibility, incredibility, gull, gullible,
gullibility.
believable, a. credible.
belittle, v. decry, disparage, underrate, depreciate.
bell, n. campana, carillon, curfew, tocsin, gong. Associated Words:
campanology, campanologist, peal, ring, knell, toll, chime.
bellicose, a. pugnacious, belligerent.
belligerent, a. at war, warring, militant; bellicose, pugnacious.
bell-ringer, n. sexton, campanologist.
bell-shaped, a. campaniform, campanulate, campaniliform.
bell-tower, n. belfry, campanile.
belly, n. abdomen, paunch; recesses, _penetralia_, depths.
belly-ache, n. colic, gripes, tormina, enteralgia.
belly-band, n. girth, surcingle.
belly-god, n. glutton, epicure, gourmand, sybarite, voluptuary.
belonging, n. appendage, appurtenance, adjunct concomitant,
accessary, attribute.
below, adv. under, beneath, underneath.
below, prep. under, beneath, underneath; inferior to; unworthy of,
unbefitting.
belt, n. girdle; girth, surcingle, cincture, cestus; zone; bandolier.
belt, v. encircle, begird, encompass, surround.
bemoan, v. lament, bewail, deplore.
bench, n. form; workbench.
bend, v. curve, flex, deflect, crook; direct, turn, apply;
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