~2.~ Profit, advantage, avail, be of advantage to.

~Benevolence~, _n._ Kindness, benignity, kind-heartedness, humanity, tenderness, charitableness, good-will, disposition to do good, milk of human kindness.

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~Benevolent~, _a._ Kind, benignant, benign, kind-hearted, obliging, humane, tender, charitable, disposed to do good.

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~Benighted~, _a._ ~1.~ Overtaken with night.

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~Benign~, _a._ ~1.~ Kind, benevolent, gracious, complaisant, humane, obliging, benignant, good, amiable, friendly, kind-hearted, tender- hearted, of a gentle disposition.

~Benignity~, _n._ ~1.~ Kindness, graciousness, benevolence, complaisance, humanity, amiability, amenity, friendliness, kind- heartedness, fellow-feeling, good feeling, good humor, good temper, obliging manner.

~Bent~, _n._ Disposition, inclination, tendency, turn, PENCHANT, leaning, bias, propensity, proclivity, predisposition, predilection, partiality, liking, fondness, proneness, appetency.

~Bent~, _a._ Crooked, hooked, bowed, curved, aduncous, ARCUATE, INCURVATE.

~Benumb~, _v. a._ Stupefy, paralyze, deaden, blunt, make torpid, render insensible.

~Be of opinion~, Think, believe, conclude, judge, suppose, imagine, fancy, deem, WERN, OPINE, hold, entertain the idea, take it.

~Be on the carpet~, Be under consideration, be upon the tapis.

~Bequeath~, _v. a._ Leave, demise, devise, will, give by will.

~Berate~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Scold, chide, reprimand, rate.

~Bereave~, _v. a._ Deprive (_of something that cannot be restored_), dispossess, divest, take away from.

~Bereavement~, _n._ Deprivation, loss (_especially of friends by death_).

~Berth~, _n._ (_Naut._) ~1.~ Ship's station.

~3.~ Situation, office, post, employment, place.

~Beseech~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Entreat, beg, implore, supplicate, petition, conjure, ADJURE, pray to.

~2.~ Solicit, ask, petition for, pray for, beg for.

~Beseem~, _v. a._ Become, bent, be proper for, be appropriate for, be meet for.

~Be seized of~, Possess, have possession of, be possessed of.

~Be selfish~, Indulge one's self, coddle one's self, consult one's own wishes, interest, or pleasure; take care of, or look after, number one; have an eye to the main chance.

~Beset~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Surround, encompass, environ, encircle, enclose, besiege, hem in.