a play, story, novel that makes a serious subject seem funny or ridiculous

• bucolic

• burlesque

• broach

• burgeon

a government administered primarily by nonelective officials

• bureaucracy

• brevity

• blithe

• blight

sorrowful through loss or deprivation

• bereaved

• bequest

• benefactor

• benevolent

have children

• beget

• bastion

• bane

• banal

not dangerous to health

• beleaguer

• bemused

• benign

• belligerent

perplexed by many conflicting situations

• bemused

• benefactor

• bastion

• bane

to grow, flourish

• bucolic

• broach

• burgeon

• blasphemy

attack on all sides

• bereaved

• beset

• blasphemy

• blatant

carefree and happy

• belithe

• blatant

• blasphemy

• beset

being of the property-owning class

• bereaved

• bovine

• bourgeois

• brevity