The /b/ sound

It baffles her physician as well, and has got doctors increasingly worried.

• deadly or sinister

• be a mystery or bewildering to

• refuse to proceed or comply

• prohibit especially by law or social pressure

He, however, was destined never to return but was proscribed and banished.

• repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

• something causing misery or death

• expel, as if by official decree

• converse in a playful or teasing way

New homes are sprouting from farmland once irrigated by the nearby Tigris River but rendered barren by war and neglect.

• without civilizing influences

• very sentimental or emotional

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area

Even world-class universities such as Oxford and Cambridge live off "old money" from property assets and a few key benefactors.

• a person who helps people or institutions

• perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements

• showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding

• not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive

The troops in the Potomac army were all lying in front of Petersburg, under fire day and night, preparing to besiege the place.

• present

• smear so as to make dirty or stained

• ask for or request earnestly

• surround so as to force to give up

Perhaps he thinks an engaged young lady should be demure and dutiful, having no eyes or ears for any one except her betrothed.

• the person to whom you are engaged

• influence in an unfair way

• argue over petty things

• divided into or made up of two parts

Then there was great shouting among the Sophomores, with much blatant, exultant cheering.

• profane language

• conspicuously and offensively loud

• offering little or no hope

• carefree and happy and lighthearted

But after that momentary pause he blurted out, "Is everything all right, Benny?"

• an embarrassing mistake

• characterized by directness in manner or speech

• utter impulsively

• act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner

A pompous, boasting sort of man, I did not like him at all.

• indicate by signs

• fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

• noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline

• possess or display some desirable feature

The wheat harvest that year was so bountiful that grain overflowed storage facilities.

• being of the property-owning class

• ill-mannered and coarse in behavior or appearance

• any of various wild or domestic cattle

• producing in abundance