Quiz D 9

Besmirch is to apply paint thickly on a wall.

Bereave is to be deprived of a close relation or friend through their death.

Bequeath is to leave or give (personal property) by will.

Bellows refers to sounds that cattle make when angry.

Belittle is to regard or portray something as less impressive or important than appearances indicate.

Beholden is owing something, such as gratitude, to another.

Behemoth is a large chafing beetle.

Beetling refers to something jutting or overhanging.

A small room with just a bed in it.

Bedrock is solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium.

Which word beginning with bl means – (of bad behaviour) done openly and unashamedly?

Which word beginning with bi means – very strange or unusual?

Which word beginning with bi means – a temporary camp without tents or cover, used especially by soldiers or mountaineers?

Which word beginning with bi means – having or relating to two poles or extremities?

Which word beginning with bi means – the study of mechanical systems that function like living organisms or parts of living organisms?

Which word beginning with bi means – the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros?

Which word beginning with bi means – the fact of being advertised or described in a particular way?

Which word beginning with bi means – intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself?

Which word beginning with bi means – denoting a lens having two parts each with a different focal length, one for distant vision and one for near vision?

Which word beginning with be means – of or like an animal or animals?

Which word is out of place with befitting adj. – appropriate, suitable, trifling, becoming?

Which word is out of place with beetling adj. – startling, overhanging, protruding, projecting?

Which word is out of place with bedrock n. – rationale, basics, premise, stasis?

Which word is out of place with Bedraggled adj. – disordered, spangled, scruffy, slovenly?

Which word is out of place with bedevil v. – frustrate, harass, filtrate, plague?

Which word is out of place with beatific adj. – exalted, sublime, divine, simulated?

Which word is out of place with bearing n. – manner, staging, poise, carriage?

Which word is out of place with beacon n. – terminal, signal, flare, bonfire?

Which word is out of place with bawdiness n. – ribaldry, idleness, vulgarity, obscenity?

Which word is out of place with battery n. – attack, assault, barrack, beating?

Match the word in the first column with another in the second column to make a recognised phrase or collocation.

Match the word in the first column with another in the second column to make a recognised phrase or collocation.