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List of Words for Letter 'B'

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  • bicentennial the two-hundredth anniversary of an event
  • bill an idea for a new law
  • boycott a refusal to do business with a company
  • blizzard a very cold snow storm
  • border state a state that divided the North and the South during the Civil War
  • budget a plan for using money
  • Buffalo Soldier a member of one of the African American regiments within the U.S. Army after the Civil War, serving primarily in the Indian wars of the late 1860s
  • butte a mountain or hill that stands alone


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