Quiz C 16

A bungle is an embarrassing mistake.

A bumper is a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage.

A budget is a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them.

Brutal refers to actions that are disposed to inflict great pain or suffering.

To browse is to cook food in a liquid in a saucepan.

A bronco is a highly trained cowboy.

A person involved in the demolition of buildings.

Broach is a medical device doctors use to probe coronary problems.

A bridle is a headgear for a horse to give the rider control.

A breech is gap or opening made by breaking or battering a wall.

Which word beginning with br means – a failure to perform some promised act or obligation in disregard of laws?{blank_1}

Which word beginning with br means – unrestrained by convention or propriety; face with defiance or impudence?{blank_1}

Which word beginning with br means – cook in a liquid?{blank_1}

Which word beginning with bo means – dull and slow-moving and stolid like an ox?{blank_1}

Which word beginning with bo means – payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals ?{blank_1}

Which word beginning with bo means – the quality of a substance that is able to rebound; rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts); a light?{blank_1}

Which word beginning with bo means – something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness?{blank_1}

Which word beginning with bo means – the branch of biology that studies plants?{blank_1}

Which word beginning with bo means – get temporarily on loan?{blank_1}

Which word beginning with bo means – of the north or northern regions?{blank_1}

Which word in the following group is out of place with confer – discuss, deliberate, initiate, consult?

Which word beginning with bo means – comprising or throughout far northern regions?{blank_1}

Which word in the following group is out of place with concur – impede, accede, accept, assent?

Which word in the following group is out of place with common – ordinary, normal, routine, binary?

Which word in the following group is out of place with combat – action, bustle, battle, encounter?

Which word in the following group is out of place with cogent – telling, convincing, adjacent, compelling?

Which word in the following group is out of place with coeval – contemporary, concurrent, synchronic, arbitrary?

Which word in the following group is out of place with coerce – oblige, repel, compel, bully?

Which word in the following group is out of place with coarse – prudish, rough, harsh, crude?

Which word in the following group is out of place with cobble – improvise, exorcise, concoct, contrive?

Which word in the following group is out of place with clutch – hold, embrace, efface, grasp?

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