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A-Z Audio Dictionary - B Words
Welcome to the Aldo Zelnick audio-dictionary. If you’re reading an Aldo Zelnick book and you’re not sure how to pronounce any of the challenging words, just come here and we’ll pronounce them for you.
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baby barf
when you throw up just a tiny amount in your mouth
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baby fat
the kind of fat that cute, chubby babies and toddlers have (and even some 10-year-olds)
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badminton
a sport (blech) you play with rackets, a tall net in the middle, and a kinda cool ball-thingy called a birdie
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bailiwick
something that’s your “thing,” something you really like
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baller
somebody who’s good at sports (and likes to show off)
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ballistic
crazy upset
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banal
boring because it’s the same every day
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banished
sent away from somewhere and told you can’t ever go back
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bargain
make a deal, compromise
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barged
pushed your way right on in
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bazillion
lots, way more than you could count
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bearded dragon
a kind of lizard people keep as pets. Has a ruffle of skin under the chin that looks like a beard—not an actual beard.
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beaucoup
Frenchy word that means lots and lots
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beckoned
told you to come along without using words, just a hand wave or a head nod
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bedlam
when all kinds of crazy, loud things are going on in a room all at once
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beeline
when you’re in a hurry to get somewhere so you take a straight and speedy path
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behavior
how you act and what you do
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behemoth
something that’s supersized
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belched
burped
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bereft
sad because you lost something you cared about
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berserk
crazy, wild upset
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bespectacled
wears glasses
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betta fish
a kind of freshwater fish that comes from Thailand and likes to fight with other fish, so they have to live by themselves in little bowls. I have one. I wonder if he likes Thai food?
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bewildering
surprisingly weird and hard to understand
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bewitching
magically attractive
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Bhutan
this little country between India and China where Bee’s pen-pal lives.
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bien
Spanish. Oh bien means Oh well.
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bilingual
can speak two languages. I speak English and Slushie.
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bilious
gross and grouchy
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bitter
one of the five main kinds of tastes (the others are sweet, salty, sour, and savory). Bitter is pretty much the only nasty one if you ask me.
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bizarre
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blabbermouth
someone who talks and talks and talks—and sometimes says things he’s not supposed to
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blah
bored and kind of sad
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blah, blah, blah
when people (usually grown-ups) say boring or dumb stuff
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blaring
LOUD! Like a car horn.
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blast!
Darn! Dag nab it!
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blatantly
obviously. So obviously that everyone knows it.
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bleepity-bleep
a phrase that you use in place of what the person really said, because what the person really said is not appropriate for children and moms to hear
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blip
an eensy bit
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blithely
happily, cheerfully. Bee does everything blithely, I’ve noticed. It’s annoying.
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block, cartoonist’s
when you’re trying to be a good cartoon-maker, like Charles Schulz, but you’re frustrated because you can’t think of anything to draw.
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blockhead
a dumb person, a knucklehead
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bloke
a British word for guy
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bludgeon
smash with a club. Ouch.
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blue
You looked up the word “blue”? It’s a color! Hello! Oh, and it can also mean sad.
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boa
a kind of snake that kills the animals it wants to eat by squeezing them to death. Isn’t that nice.
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bodacious
super, mega, uber awesome
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bogus
Fake. Kinda also means something that you think is wrong even though other people might think it’s right.
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bohemian
somebody who loves life and having fun
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boisterous
loud and wild
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bok choy
some gross kind of Asian cabbage
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bolted
took off really quickly
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bon voyage
French for goodbye and have a good trip (Hey, am I going somewhere?)
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bona fide
real, genuine, not an imposter
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bonkers
crazy crazy
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botched
same as bungled
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bouffant
a girl hairstyle with a big pile of hair on the top of the head. That is just wrong in so many ways.
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bouldering
a sport where you climb around on big rocks. Uh, yeaaah.
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bounding
running and jumping at the same time
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bowl, singing
a copper bowl that sounds kinda like a bell when you rub its top edge
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brain freeze
that icicle-in-the-head pain you get when you drink something uber-cold really fast. Also called ice cream headache.
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brainstormed
thought up a ton of ideas, even if some of them are dumb
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brazen
does brave stuff without worrying about it
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BRB
be right back
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breakdancing
a kind of dancing that is way too athletic and tiring
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bric-a-brac
dumb little decorations you have on the shelves in your house
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broiling
hot, hot, hot. So hot that it’s the setting you use on your oven when you cook steaks.
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brouhaha
a time when everybody’s acting all loud and crazy
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brusquely
short and abrupt (a tiny bit mean too)
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brutal
harsh and kinda mean
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bubonic plague
a terrible sickness that makes you look and feel like you’re gonna die, cuz you probably are
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Buddha
an Indian guy who lived thousands of years ago and was good at meditating
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bueno
Spanish for that’s good
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bulging
so full it’s almost ready to burst
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bummed
sad
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bungled
messed up, ruined
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busted
caught and in trouble
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butler
a guy who’s like your personal slave and does everything for you that you don’t want to do
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butter brickle
a kind of ice cream with yummy, hard bits of toffee mixed in
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buzzkill
something or somebody that makes you sad right when you’re in the middle of being happy
