49. border, margin, edge, verge, brink, rim, brim. All these nouns refer to the line or narrow area that marks the outside limit of something such as a surface.
50. boring, monotonous, tedious, irksome, tiresome, humdrum. These adjectives refer to what is so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness.
51. boundary, border, frontier, limit. These nouns all denote a line or an area separating one piece of territory from another.
52. breach, infraction, violation, transgression, trespass, infringement. These nouns denote an act or instance of breaking a law or regulation or failing to fulfill a duty, obligation, or promise.
53. breach, infraction, violation, transgression, trespass, infringement. These nouns denote an act or instance of breaking a law or regulation or failing to fulfill a duty, obligation, or promise.
54. break, crack, fracture, burst, split, splinter, shatter, smash. These verbs are compared as they mean to separate or cause to separate into parts or pieces.
55. bright, brilliant, radiant, lustrous, luminous, incandescent. These adjectives refer to what emits or reflects light.
56. brute, animal, brutish, brutal, beastly, bestial. These adjectives apply to what is more characteristic of lower animals than of human beings.
57. bulwark, barricade, breastwork, earthwork, rampart, bastion, parapet. All of these nouns refer literally to structures used as a defense against attack.
58. burdensome, onerous, oppressive, arduous, demanding, rigorous, exacting. These adjectives all apply to what imposes a severe test of bodily or spiritual strength.
59. burn, scorch, singe, sear, char, parch. These verbs mean to injure or alter by means of intense heat or flames
60. business, industry, commerce, trade, traffic. These nouns apply to forms of activity that have the objective of supplying commodities.

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