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　SAT高频词汇中以B开头的词汇不太多，新航道小编整理SAT考试中B字母开头的高频词汇，供大家参考。

　　balk (v.) to stop, block abruptly (Edna’s boss balked at her request for another raise.)

　　ballad (n.) a love song (Greta’s boyfriend played her a ballad on the guitar during their

　　walk through the dark woods.)

　　banal (adj.) dull, commonplace (The client rejected our proposal because they found

　　our presentation banal and unimpressive.)

　　bane (n.) a burden (Advanced physics is the bane of many students’ academic lives.)

　　bard (n.) a poet, often a singer as well (Shakespeare is often considered the greatest bard

　　in the history of the English language.)

　　bashful (adj.) shy, excessively timid (Frankie’s mother told him not to be bashful when

　　he refused to attend the birthday party.)

　　battery 1.(n.) a device that supplies power (Most cars run on a combination of power

　　from a battery and gasoline.) 2. (n.)assault, beating (Her husband was accused of

　　assault and battery after he attacked a man on the sidewalk.)

　　beguile (v.) to trick, deceive (The thief beguiled his partners into surrendering all of

　　their money to him.)

　　behemoth (n.) something of tremendous power or size (The new aircraft carrier is

　　among several behemoths that the Air Force has added to its fleet.)

　　benevolent (adj.) marked by goodness or doing good (Police officers should be

　　commended for their benevolent service to the community.)

　　benign (adj.) favorable, not threatening, mild (We were all relieved to hear that the

　　medical tests determined her tumor to be benign.)

　　bequeath (v.) to pass on, give (Jon’s father bequeathed his entire estate to his mother.)

　　berate (v.) to scold vehemently (The angry boss berated his employees for failing to

　　meet their deadline.)

　　bereft (adj.) devoid of, without (His family was bereft of food and shelter following the

　　tornado.)

　　beseech (v.) to beg, plead, implore (The servant beseeched the king for food to feed his

　　starving family.)

　　bias (n.) a tendency, inclination, prejudice (The judge’s hidden bias against smokers led

　　him to make an unfair decision.)

　　SAT Vocabulary

　　C

　　bilk (v.) cheat, defraud (The lawyer discovered that this firm had bilked several clients

　　out of thousands of dollars.)

　　blandish (v.) to coax by using flattery (Rachel’s assistant tried to blandish her into

　　accepting the deal.)

　　blemish (n.) an imperfection, flaw (The dealer agreed to lower the price because of the

　　many blemishes on the surface of the wooden furniture.)

　　blight 1. (n.) a plague, disease (The potato blight destroyed the harvest and bankrupted

　　many families.) 2. (n.) something that destroys hope (His bad morale is a blight

　　upon this entire operation.)

　　boisterous (adj.) loud and full of energy (The candidate won the vote after giving

　　several boisterous speeches on television.)

　　bombastic (adj.) excessively confident, pompous (The singer’s bombastic performance

　　disgusted the crowd.)

　　boon (n.) a gift or blessing (The good weather has been a boon for many businesses

　　located near the beach.)

　　bourgeois (n.) a middle-class person, capitalist (Many businessmen receive criticism for

　　their bourgeois approach to life.)

　　brazen (adj.) excessively bold, brash (Critics condemned the novelist’s brazen attempt

　　to plagiarize Hemingway’s story.)

　　brusque (adj.) short, abrupt, dismissive (The captain’s brusque manner offended the

　　passengers.)

　　buffet 1. (v.) to strike with force (The strong winds buffeted the ships, threatening to

　　capsize them.) 2. (n.) an arrangement of food set out on a table (Rather than sitting

　　around a table, the guests took food from our buffet and ate standing up.)

　　burnish (v.) to polish, shine (His mother asked him to burnish the silverware before

　　setting the table.)

　　buttress 1. (v.) to support, hold up (The column buttresses the roof above the statue.) 2.

　　(n.) something that offers support (The buttress supports the roof above the statues.)