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beguiling
  • v  influence by slyness
  • v  attract; cause to be enamored
  • s  highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
    the voice was low and beguiling
  • s  misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods
    taken in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes
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beggarly
  • s  marked by poverty befitting a beggar
    a beggarly existence in the slums
  • s  (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
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beginning
  • n  the event consisting of the start of something
    the beginning of the war
  • n  the time at which something is supposed to begin
  • n  the first part or section of something
    `It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story
  • n  the place where something begins, where it springs into being
    the Italian beginning of the Renaissance
  • n  the act of starting something
    he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations
  • v  take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
  • v  have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
  • v  set in motion, cause to start
  • v  begin to speak or say
  • v  be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series
  • v  have a beginning, of a temporal event
  • v  have a beginning characterized in some specified way
  • v  begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
  • v  achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative
  • v  begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language
  • s  serving to begin
    the beginning canto of the poem
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begotten
  • v  make children
  • s  (of offspring) generated by procreation
    naturally begotten child
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begrimed
  • v  make soiled, filthy, or dirty
  • s  thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
    a miner's begrimed face
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beguiled
  • v  influence by slyness
  • v  attract; cause to be enamored
  • s  filled with wonder and delight
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behavioral
  • a  of or relating to behavior
    behavioral sciences
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