“B” – Vocab-ability – A More Powerful Vocabulary (This post includes all entries beginning with the letter “B”) (Revised and Updated)

in #writing6 years ago (edited)

This updated post comprises all the “B” entries of the Vocab-ability series. It includes many English words whose etymology can be traced to Greek and Latin roots. 

If you learn these roots, you can learn, understand, and use each and every English word derived from them. Vocab-ability is an easy-to-use resource guide to help you understand those roots.    

In total, this Vocab-ability post features 5 entries that begins with the letter “B."

(This is an Updated and Revised post, featuring coloured text boxes and additional features.)

Free Use: 

Please feel free to download the following material, copy it, print it out, and distribute it for any and all educational purposes. If it helps you or your students increase your English vocabulary, it will have served its purpose. And I will know that my efforts have proven beneficial. (Please see my additional comments and notes below the entries.)

Vocab-ability–19 (belli, bel = war)

Vocab-ability–20 (ben, bon = good)

Vocab-ability–21 (bibl, bibli = book)

Vocab-ability–22 (bio = life)

Vocab-ability–23 (brev, bri = short)

Note re Copyright / Free Use: 

I hold the copyright to the original Vocab-ability guide, which was published in 2002. I hereby grant free use to all the material contained in this post and all other Vocab-ability posts on Steemit.    

Note re Copying each Screenshot: 

Each separate entry (including those in this and other Vocab-ability posts) consists of one screenshot (since making screenshots was the only way I could properly format the individual entries for uploading to Steemit). To use these entries for your personal study or in any classroom, you can download any or all screenshots by clicking and dragging the screenshots that you want to use, and then print them out.   

Note re Passing on the Vocab-ability Links:  

Alternatively, you can simply pass on one or more of the following links to the Vocab-ability posts:

Vocab-ability – All “A” Entries.

Vocab-ability – All “C” Entries.

Vocab-ability – All “D” Entries.

Vocab-ability – All “E” Entries.

Vocab-ability – All “F” Entries.

Vocab-ability – All “G” Entries.

Vocab-ability – All “H” Entries.

Vocab-ability – The Single “I” Entry.

Vocab-ability – All “J” Entries.

Vocab-ability – All “L” Entries.

Vocab-ability – All “M” Entries.

Vocab-ability – All “N” Entries.

Vocab-ability – All “O” Entries.

Vocab-ability – All “P” Entries.

Vocab-ability – The Single “Q” Entry.

Vocab-ability – All “R” Entries.

Vocab-ability – All “S” Entries.

Vocab-ability – All “T” Entries.

Vocab-ability – The single “U” Entry.

Vocab-ability – All “V” Entries.

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..an addition to my vocab screenshots saved and put in an album in my gallery.
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I'm very pleased that you find all these posts beneficial.

..it's of great help sir @majest.tytyty especially when you used it in words,its indeed benificial especially to us where english is not our mean language.

Thanks for this wonderful insight, its an additional knowledge on my part, i will print this out and teach to my kids😊

Today I learned abridge.
"Hey, let's make posts more abridge!"

We'd say something like, "Let's abridge our posts."

"Abridge" is a verb, and "abridged" is the past participle, used as an adjective.

Thank you for continuing this rubric, it's like your business card.

Спасибо, что продолжаете эту рубрику, она как Ваша визитная карточка.

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B vocabulary great one and very useful for us we need to know all the vocabulary but noone really knows and you teaching us that's amazing work @majes.tytyty keep it up

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