Quiz D 12

Brisket is a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest.

A brigade is a subdivision of an army.

A brickbat is a very strong bat used in the game of cricket.

Brevity refers to conciseness and exactness in the use of words in writing or speech.

A breakwater is a ship that can sail through thick ice in the ocean.

A brazier is a soldering iron.

Bravura is a display of great technical skill and brilliance shown in a performance or activity.

A bravado is a Canadian sheep dog from Labrador.

A bramble is a kind of crossword puzzles where letters have to be unscrambled.

A boutique is a small retail shop that specializes in gifts and fashionable clothes etc.

Which word beginning with br means – a young chicken suitable for roasting or barbecuing?

Which word beginning with br means – thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern?

Which word beginning with br means – a stiff fibre (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic?

Which word beginning with br means – a block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel?

Which word beginning with br means – having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy colouring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats?

Which word beginning with br means – an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band?

Which word beginning with br means – the use of brief expressions?

Which word beginning with br means – a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded?

Which word beginning with br means – brilliant and showy technical skill?

Which word beginning with br means – a swaggering show of courage?

Which word is out of place with bowdlerize v – censor, excise, reprise, expurgate?

Which word is out of place with bourgeois adj – cohesive, conservative, conformist, materialistic?

Which word is out of place with boulevard n – avenue, thoroughfare, parade, retinue?

Which word is out of place with bombastic adj – pompous, pragmatic, pretentious, grandiose?

Which word is out of place with boisterous adj – disorderly, riotous, wondrous, unruly?

Which word is out of place with bloated adj – swollen, dilated, puffy, depleted?

Which word is out of place with blatant adj – flagrant, resistant, brazen, undisguised?

Which word is out of place with bestride v – straddle, swaddle, span, bridge ?

Which word is out of place with bestow v – award, grant, supplant, endow?

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.