| 5000 Vocabulary List for Visiting Scholars in the USA - Page 49 | |||
| Word | Type | Used in a Sentence | Synonym |
| bite | noun | She took a bite out of her apple. | mouthful |
| verb | The dog will bite strangers. | attack with teeth | |
| bitter | adj. | He was a bitter man. | disagreeable |
| bitterly | adv. | She bitterly opposed the leader. | with rancor |
| black | adj. | It was a black car. | dark color |
| blackboard | noun | I wrote on the blackboard with chalk. | chalkboard |
| blacksmith | noun | The blacksmith forged a new tool. | iron worker |
| blame | verb | Blame the weather for crop failure. | give fault to |
| noun | I take the blame for the lost book. | fault | |
| blank | adj. | The page is entirely blank. | empty |
| blast | verb | We will blast with dynamite at noon. | explode |
| noun | The blast was heard for two miles. | explosion | |
| blaze | noun | The blaze was seen for many miles. | fire |
| verb | The fire blazed for hours. | burned | |