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burnable, a. combustible, inflammable. Antonyms: incombustible, asbestic.
burning, n. combustion, cineration, incineration; cauterization, cautery; pyrography; arson; incendiarism; smoldering.
burning, n. cremation, incremation. a.s.sociated Words: cremator, crematory, crematorium.
bury, n. inter, inhume, entomb, sepulcher; hide, secrete, conceal, cache. Antonyms: disinter, exhume.
burying-ground, n. cemetery.
bush, n. shrub; thicket, jungle, underwood, boscage.
bushwhacker, n. bushranger, guerrilla.
business, n. vocation, calling, pursuit, craft, trade, occupation, profession; avocation; traffic, trade, commerce, enterprise, industry, barter; duty, function, work, place; affair, concern, matter. a.s.sociated words: commercial, mercantile, technical, technicality, technology.
bustle, n. stir, agitation, tumult, ado, pother, commotion; bishop, tournure, pannier.
busy, a. occupied, engaged, employed, engrossed; diligent, industrious, sedulous, active; intrusive, officious, meddlesome.
butcher, v. slaughter.
b.u.t.ter, n. a.s.sociated Words: butyric, butyrin, butyrometer, butyrate, dairy, creamery, churn, b.u.t.terine, capric, caprylic, caproic acid, butyraceous.
b.u.t.terflies, n. pl. Lepidoptera. a.s.sociated Words: lepidopterist, lepidopteral, lepidopterous, caterpillar, larva.
b.u.t.tock, n. rump, fundament, breech; glutaeus (muscle).
b.u.t.tress, n. support, stay, prop.
buy, v. purchase.
buyer, n. purchaser.
buying, n. purchase.
buzz, n. hum, murmur, bombinate; whiz.
buzz, v. hum, bombinate.
by degrees. gradually.
bystander, n. spectator, onlooker, witness.
by turns. alternately, in succession.
C
C. a.s.sociated Word: cedilla.
cabbage, n. savoy; colewort; broccoli; collards; Brussels sprouts.
a.s.sociated Words: Bra.s.sica, bra.s.sicaceous.
cabbage, v. (Colloq.) steal, pilfer, purloin, filch.
cabin, n. hut, hovel, shanty, cot, shack, cottage.
cage, n. mew.--v. confine, coop up, encage, mew.
caged, a. imprisoned, confined.
cajole, v. beguile, wheedle, blandish, inveigle, flatter.
cajolery, n. wheedling, blandishment, beguilement.
cake, v. concrete, harden, solidify, coagulate.
calamitous, a. disastrous, deplorable, baleful, ill-fated, untoward, dire.
calamity, n. disaster, catastrophe, misfortune, casualty, reverse, adversity, mischance.
calculate, v. compute, reckon, estimate; forecast; (Colloq.) expect, intend, contemplate, plan.
calculating, a. scheming, forecasting, crafty, circ.u.mspect, cautious, wary.
calculation, n. computation, reckoning; expectation, antic.i.p.ation; circ.u.mspection, wariness, forethought, caution.
calendar, n. almanac; list, schedule, register, catalogue, docket.
calf, n. a.s.sociated Words: vellum, parchment, veal, fatling, dogy, vitular, vituline, slink, slunk, calve, steer.
calico, n. print.
California poppy. eschscholtzia.
call, v. summon, bid, evoke, invite; convoke, a.s.semble, muster, convene; ent.i.tle, name, designate, dub, denominate; invoke, pet.i.tion, invocate.
call, n. summons, vocation, invocation, entreaty, appeal, invitation; signal; requirement, demand, requisition; election, appointment; interview.
calling, n. summons, call; vocation (divine summons); evocation, convocation; occupation, business, trade, employment, vocation, pursuit.
callous, a. unfeeling, insensible, hardened, unimpressible.
callow, a. unfledged, unfeathered; immature, green, inexperienced.
