stoop,
incline; yield, condescend.

bend, n. curve, deflection, crook, curvature, bight, coil, flexure,
incurvation.

bendable, a. flexible, supple, lithe, pliable, pliant. Antonyms:
See inflexible.

benefice, n. living (Eccl.); sinecure. Associated Words:
advowson, simony, donative.

beneficent, a. benevolent, charitable, philanthropic, magnanimous,
benignant.

beneficial, a. advantageous, salutary, profitable, useful, wholesome.

benefit, n. avail, profit, behalf, advantage, service.

benefit, v. help, conduce, avail, advantage, be useful to, do good
to.

benevolence, n. beneficence, bounty, benignity, charity.

benevolent, a. benign, beneficent, bountiful, charitable,
philanthropic.

benighted, a. unenlightened; belated.

bent, a. crooked, flexed, hooked; determined.

bent, n. leaning, bias, proclivity, tendency, predilection,
predisposition.

benumb, v. stupefy, blunt, hebetate.

benumbed, a. torpid, unfeeling, stupefied.

bequeath, v. devise, will.

bequest, n. legacy.

berate, v. upbraid, rate, reprimand, censure.

berry, n. Associated Words: baccate, baccated, baccivorous,
bacciferous, cocciferous, bacciform.

beseech, v. entreat, implore, adjure, supplicate.

beset, v. besiege, obsess, beleaguer, environ, encompass; perplex,
harass.

besides, adv. moreover, furthermore, further, too.

besiege, v. obsess, environ, beset, beleaguer, encompass.

besieging, n. obsession.

best, a. supreme, consummate, superlative, crowning, incomparable,
utmost.

bet, v. wager, stake.--n. wager.

betoken, v. foreshadow, portend, presage, foreshow, indicate, augur.

betray, v. seduce, mislead, delude, beguile, inveigle; reveal,
disclose; give up treacherously, give over to the enemy, act the traitor,
be false to.

betrayal, n. treason, treachery, perfidy; revelation, exposure;
seduction.

betrayer, n. traitor, seducer; Judas.

betroth, v. affiance.

betrothal, n. affiance, betrothment.

better, n. upper hand, domination, advantage, control, superiority;
improvement.

better, v. ameliorate, improve, emend, promote, reform, meliorate,
amend.

betterment, n. amelioration, improvement, promotion, amendment,
reformation.

between, prep. betwixt (Obsolescent).--a. interjacent,
intervening.

betwixt and between. (Colloq.) so-so, mediocre, average, ordinary,
indifferent.

bevy, n. (of birds) flock, covey; (of deer) herd; (of girls)
group.

bewail, v. deplore, lament, bemoan, wail ov