VOCABULARY BUILDING WITH STEPHANIE

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Good day TTB followers and welcome to Vocab Building.
Join me as we explore words from weird,  to archaic, to long and short, simple and complex, to even slang words.
Today we're going to hop on a time machine and check out some archaic words that are no longer gracing our vocabularies.

Bane- poison

Baseborn- of low birth or social standing

Bedlam- an asylum

Behold- see or observe

Behoof- benefit or advantage

Beldam- an old woman

Bethink- oneself of remember; recollect

Betimes- in good time; early

Bibliopole- a dealer in books

Bijoux- jewellery; trinkets

Billow- a large sea wave

Blackguard- a scoundrel

Blow- produce flowers or be in flower

Bodkin- a dagger

Bootless- (of a task) ineffectual; useless

Breech- a person's buttocks

Bridewell- a prison or reform school for petty offenders

Brimstone- sulphur

Bruit- a report or rumour

Buck- a fashionable and daring young man

Bumper- a generous glass of an alcoholic drink

Burgess- a full citizen of a town or borough

Buss- a kiss

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