A to Z Challenge: B


It's day two of the A to Z Challenge.   How is everyone holding up?  Ready to learn some new words with me?

Bagatelle 
Definition: 1. a French table game like billiards played with pins as obstacles; 2. something of little value or importance; a trifle; 3. a short and light musical composition, typically for the piano.
Sentence: Even though Marty had never played bagatelle before, he seemed to be a natural.

Bouleversement 
Definition: complete overthrow : a reversal.
Sentence: The group threatened a complete bouleversement of the government.

Bellicose
Definition: having or showing a ready deposition to fight.
Sentence: So far from unduly fostering a bellicose spirit tending to war, these would  be tactful preventatives of wasteful foreign and civil broils. 
                -- Carson Jay Lee

Blandishment
Definition: flattery intended to persuade.
Sentence: He had expected coaxings, blandishments, the pleadings and wiles with which Virginia the elder had made him so intimately acquainted.   
           -- Mrs. Baillie Reynolds

Bowdlerize
Definition: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate. 
Sentence: Being an iconic classic, however, hasn't protected "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" from being banned, bowdlerized and bleeped.
          -- New York Times (Jan, 7, 2011)

Comments

  1. UnknownApril 2, 2015 at 7:18 AM

    Great words, I particularly like Bowdlerize it rolls nicely off the tongue!

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  2. UnknownApril 2, 2015 at 7:22 AM

    I once wrote a story titled "Bellicose". I love that word!

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  3. Chrys FeyApril 2, 2015 at 9:26 AM

    That last one is tricky to pronounce. At least I think so.

    -Chrys Fey
    Tremp’s Troops - A to Z Co-co-host
    Write with Fey

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  4. David P. KingApril 2, 2015 at 12:55 PM

    Those words are huge! Consider my vocabulary expanded. :)

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  5. A Tarkabarka HölgyApril 2, 2015 at 2:18 PM

    Bagatelle is a word we use in Hungarian too :) In its second meaning.
    I am brushing up on my English now.

    @TarkabarkaHolgy from
    Multicolored Diary - Epics from A to Z
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  6. KC KendricksApril 2, 2015 at 3:58 PM

    Stopping by as part of the 2015 A to Z. Great B words! Best I've seen so far :)

    KC
    #31 on the 2015 A to Z list

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  7. Stephanie FarisApril 2, 2015 at 5:38 PM

    I'm ashamed to say I've never heard of any of these words before!

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  8. Susan KaneApril 2, 2015 at 6:52 PM

    So great B words.

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  9. ClickApril 3, 2015 at 5:13 AM

    I like all these words. I remember reading about the origins of the word 'bowdlerise' in a book about how words came to be used in English. :-)

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