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- medley n
- A composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole
- meliorate v
- To make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition
- mellifluous adj
- Sweetly or smoothly flowing
- melodious adj
- Characterized by a sweet succession of sounds
- melodrama n
- A drama with a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents
- memento n
- A souvenir
- memorable adj
- Noteworthy
- menace n
- A threat
- menagerie n
- A collection of wild animals, especially when kept for exhibition
- mendacious adj
- Untrue
- mendicant n
- A beggar
- mentality n
- Intellectuality
- mentor n
- A wise and faithful teacher, guide, and friend
- mercantile adj
- Conducted or acting on business principles; commercial
- mercenary adj
- Greedy
- merciful adj
- Disposed to pity and forgive
- merciless adj
- Cruel
- meretricious adj
- Alluring by false or gaudy show
- mesmerize v
- To hypnotize
- messieurs n
- Pl Gentlemen
- metal n
- An element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous
- metallurgy n
- The art or science of extracting a metal from ores, as by smelting
- metamorphosis n
- A passing from one form or shape into another
- metaphor n
- A figure of speech in which one object is likened to another, by speaking as if the other
- metaphysical adj
- Philosophical
- metaphysician n
- One skilled in metaphysics
- metaphysics n
- The principles of philosophy as applied to explain the methods of any particular science
- mete v
- To apportion
- metempsychosis n
- Transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast
- meticulous adj
- Over-cautious
- metonymy n
- A figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes
- metric adj
- Relating to measurement
- metronome n
- An instrument for indicating and marking exact time in music
- metropolis n
- A chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state
- metropolitan adj
- Pertaining to a chief city
- mettle n
- Courage
- mettlesome adj
- Having courage or spirit
- microcosm n
- The world or universe on a small scale
- micrometer n
- An instrument for measuring very small angles or dimensions
- microphone n
- An apparatus for magnifying faint sounds
- microscope n
- An instrument for assisting the eye in the vision of minute objects or features of objects
- microscopic adj
- Adapted to or characterized by minute observation
- microscopy n
- The art of examing objects with the microscope
- midsummer n
- The middle of the summer
- midwife n
- A woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth
- mien n
- The external appearance or manner of a person
- migrant adj
- Wandering
- migrate v
- To remove or pass from one country, region, or habitat to another
- migratory adj
- Wandering
- mileage n
- A distance in miles
- militant adj
- Of a warlike or combative disposition or tendency
- militarism n
- A policy of maintaining great standing armies
- militate v
- To have weight or influence (in determining a question)
- militia n
- Those citizens, collectively, who are enrolled and drilled in temporary military organizations
- Milky Way n
- The galaxy
- millet n
- A grass cultivated for forage and cereal
- mimic v
- To imitate the speech or actions of
- miniature adj
- Much smaller than reality or that the normal size
- minimize v
- To reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree
- minion n
- A servile favorite
- ministration n
- Any religious ceremonial
- ministry n
- A service
- minority n
- The smaller in number of two portions into which a number or a group is divided
- minute adj
- Exceedingly small in extent or quantity
- minutia n
- A small or unimportant particular or detail
- mirage n
- An optical effect looking like a sheet of water in the desert
- misadventure n
- An unlucky accident
- misanthropic adj
- Hating mankind
- misanthropy n
- Hatred of mankind
- misapprehend v
- To misunderstand
- misbehave v
- To behave ill
- misbehavior n
- Ill or improper behavior
- mischievous adj
- Fond of tricks
- miscount v
- To make a mistake in counting
- miscreant n
- A villain
- misdeed n
- A wrong or improper act
- misdemeanor n
- Evil conduct, small crime
- miser n
- A person given to saving and hoarding unduly
- mishap n
- Misfortune
- misinterpret v
- To misunderstand
- mislay v
- To misplace
- mismanage v
- To manage badly, improperly, or unskillfully
- misnomer n
- A name wrongly or mistakenly applied
- misogamy n
- Hatred of marriage
- misogyny n
- Hatred of women
- misplace v
- To put into a wrong place
- misrepresent v
- To give a wrong impression
- misrule v
- To misgovern
- missal n
- The book containing the service for the celebration of mass
- missile n
- Any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown
- missive n
- A message in writing
- mistrust v
- To regard with suspicion or jealousy
- misty adj
- Lacking clearness
- misunderstand v
- To Take in a wrong sense
- misuse v
- To maltreat
- mite n
- A very small amount, portion, or particle
- miter n
- The junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle
- mitigate v
- To make milder or more endurable
- mnemonics n
- A system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances
- moat n
- A ditch on the outside of a fortress wall
- mobocracy n
- Lawless control of public affairs by the mob or populace
- moccasin n
- A foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin
- mockery n
- Ridicule
- moderation n
- Temperance
- moderator n
- The presiding officer of a meeting
- modernity n
- The state or character of being modern
- modernize v
- To make characteristic of the present or of recent times
- modification n
- A change
- modify v
- To make somewhat different
- modish adj
- Fashionable
- modulate v
- To vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound
- mollify v
- To soothe
- molt v
- To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc
- momentary adj
- Lasting but a short time
- momentous adj
- Very significant
- momentum n
- An impetus
- monarchy n
- Government by a single, sovereign ruler
- monastery n
- A dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion
- monetary adj
- Financial
- mongrel n
- The progeny resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties
- monition n
- Friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof
- monitory n
- Admonition or warning
- monocracy n
- Government by a single person
- monogamy n
- The habit of pairing, or having but one mate
- monogram n
- A character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a
- name
- monograph n
- A treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject
- monolith n
- Any structure or sculpture in stone formed of a single piece
- monologue n
- A story or drama told or performed by one person
- monomania n
- The unreasonable pursuit of one idea
- monopoly n
- The control of a thing, as a commodity, to enable a person to raise its price
- monosyllable n
- A word of one syllable
- monotone n
- The sameness or monotony of utterance
- monotonous adj
- Unchanging and tedious
- monotony n
- A lack of variety
- monsieur n
- A French title of respect, equivalent to Mr and sir
- monstrosity n
- Anything unnaturally huge or distorted
- moonbeam n
- A ray of moonlight
- morale n
- A state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal, and the like
- moralist n
- A writer on ethics
- morality n
- Virtue
- moralize v
- To render virtuous
- moratorium n
- An emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily
- morbid adj
- Caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind
- mordacious adj
- Biting or giving to biting
- mordant adj
- Biting
- moribund adj
- On the point of dying
- morose adj
- Gloomy
- morphology n
- the science of organic forms
- motley adj
- Composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements
- motto n
- An expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life, or faith
- mountaineer n
- One who travels among or climbs mountains for pleasure or exercise
- mountainous adj
- Full of or abounding in mountains
- mouthful n
- As much as can be or is usually put into the or exercise
- muddle v
- To confuse or becloud, especially with or as with drink
- muffle v
- To deaden the sound of, as by wraps
- mulatto n
- The offspring of a white person and a black person
- muleteer n
- A mule-driver
- multiform adj
- Having many shapes, or appearances
- multiplicity n
- the condition of being manifold or very various
- mundane adj
- Worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial
- municipal adj
- Of or pertaining to a town or city, or to its corporate or local government
- municipality n
- A district enjoying municipal government
- munificence n
- A giving characterized by generous motives and extraordinary liberality
- munificent adj
- Extraordinarily generous
- muster n
- An assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection, or for numbering off
- mutation n
- The act or process of change
- mutilate v
- To disfigure
- mutiny n
- Rebellion against lawful or constituted authority
- myriad n
- A vast indefinite number
- mystic n
- One who professes direct divine illumination, or relies upon meditation to acquire truth
- mystification n
- The act of artfully perplexing
- myth n
- A fictitious narrative presented as historical, but without any basis of fact
- mythology n
- The whole body of legends cherished by a race concerning gods and heroes
- nameless adj
- Having no fame or reputation
- naphtha n
- A light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints
- Narcissus n
- The son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection
- narrate v
- To tell a story
- narration n
- The act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence
- narrative n
- An orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event
- narrator n
- One who narrates anything
- narrow-minded adj
- Characterized by illiberal views or sentiments
- nasal adj
- Pertaining to the nose
- natal adj
- Pertaining to one's birth
- nationality n
- A connection with a particular nation
- naturally adv
- According to the usual order of things
- nausea n
- An affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit
- nauseate v
- To cause to loathe
- nauseous adj
- Loathsome
- nautical adj
- Pertaining to ships, seamen, or navigation
- naval adj
- Pertaining to ships
- navel n
- The depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached
- navigable adj
- Capable of commercial navigation
- navigate v
- To traverse by ship
- nebula n
- A gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance
- necessary adj
- Indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result
- necessitate v
- To render indispensable
- necessity n
- That which is indispensably requisite to an end desired
- necrology n
- A list of persons who have died in a certain place or time
- necromancer n
- One who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead
- necropolis n
- A city of the dead
- necrosis n
- the death of part of the body
- nectar n
- Any especially sweet and delicious drink
- nectarine n
- A variety of the peach
- needlework n
- Embroidery
- needy adj
- Being in need, want, or poverty
- nefarious adj
- Wicked in the extreme
- negate v
- To deny
- negation n
- The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition
- neglectful adj
- Exhibiting or indicating omission
- negligee n
- A loose gown worn by women
- negligence n
- Omission of that which ought to be done
- negligent adj
- Apt to omit what ought to be done
- negligible adj
- Transferable by assignment, endorsement, or delivery
- negotiable v
- To bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property
- Nemesis n
- A goddess; divinity of chastisement and vengeance
- neocracy n
- Government administered by new or untried persons
- neo-Darwinsim n
- Darwinism as modified and extended by more recent students
- neo-Latin n
- Modernized Latin
- neopaganism n
- A new or revived paganism
- Neolithic adj
- Pertaining to the later stone age
- neology n
- The coining or using of new words or new meanings of words
- neophyte adj
- Having the character of a beginner
- nestle v
- To adjust cozily in snug quarters
- nestling adj
- Recently hatched
- nettle v
- To excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in
- network n
- Anything that presents a system of cross- lines
- neural adj
- Pertaining to the nerves or nervous system
- neurology n
- The science of the nervous system
- neuter adj
- Neither masculine nor feminine
- neutral adj
- Belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants
- nevertheless conj
- Notwithstanding
- Newtonian adj
- Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, the English philosopher
- niggardly adj
- Stingy (no longer acceptable to use)
- nihilist n
- An advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known
- nil n
- Nothing
- nimble adj
- Light and quick in motion or action
- nit n
- The egg of a louse or some other insect
- nocturnal adj
- Of or pertaining to the night
- noiseless adj
- Silent
- noisome adj
- Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell
- noisy adj
- Clamorous
- nomad adj
- Having no fixed abode
- nomic adj
- Usual or customary
- nominal adj
- Trivial
- nominate v
- To designate as a candidate for any office
- nomination n
- The act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office
- nominee n
- One who receives a nomination
- non-existent n
- That which does not exist
- non-resident adj
- Not residing within a given jurisdiction