English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'M'
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English Vocabulary
Words Start from Letter 'M'
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MACHIAVELLIAN: Sacrificing moral principles in order to attain power; politically cunning; crafty.
Sentence:
* A Machiavellian
design,
wickedly contrived.
Synonym: Unscrupulous.
- MALICIOUS (noun: MALICE): Bearing, or acting with, deliberate ill-will or spite
Sentence:
* Hurting with malicious
intent.
Synonyms: Rancorous, Malignant, Malevolent, Virulent, Vindictive.
Antonym: benign.
- MASQUERADE:
(verb): To assume a deceptive appearance or
character.
Sentence:
* A thief masquerading as an honest man.
Synonyms: Dissemble, Feign.
(noun): A disguise; a group of people in disguise or fancy costumes.
Sentence:
* A masquerade so perfect no one could guess
his identity.
- MAUDLIN: Sentimental to the point of tears.
Sentence:
* Turned maudlin at the mention of his lost dog.
Synonym: Mawkish, Lachrymose.
- MEANDER: To walk about (or talk) aimlessly; to wind about (as a stream).
Sentence:
* Meandered through the town, looking
into
shop windows.
Synonym: Ramble.
- MEDIOCRE: Average in quality.
Sentence:
* A mediocre performance, unworthy of his talents.
- MERCENARY: Acting solely from a
consideration of reward or profit
Sentence:
* Actuated by a mercenary motive.
Synonym: Venal.
- MERETRICIOUS: Attracting in a false, cheap, or showy manner.
Sentence:
* A meretricious beauty that is too flashy to be real.
Synonyms: Tawdry, Specious.
- METICULOUS: Fussy about minute details.
Sentence:
* Took meticulous pains with his
composition.
Synonyms: Fastidious, Punctilious, Overscrupulous, Finical, Methodical.
Antonyms: Desultory, Perfunctory, Slovenly.
- METTLE (adj.
METTLESOME: high-spirited ): Disposition; spirit; courage
Sentence:
* His mettle was tried in battle.
Idiom: to be on one's mettle (meaning, “ready to do one's
best”)
Synonyms: Temperament, Ardor.
- MICROCOSM: A little world, or a universe in miniature.
Sentence:
* This village, a microcosm of the great outside world.
Antonym: Macrocosm (world on a large scale).
- MIMIC: To make fun of or copy by imitating.
Sentence:
* Mimicked the comedian's gestures.
- MISANTHROPIC (noun:
MISANTHROPE): Hating or distrusting mankind.
Sentence:
* Condemned for his misanthropic views.
Antonyms: Philanthropic, Altruistic.
- MISNOMER: A name or
term that describes wrongly
Sentence:
* To call him a brave man is really a misnomer.
- MONOLOGUE: A speech by one person.
Sentence:
* The actor gave his views in a
dramatic monologue.
Synonym: Soliloquy.
Antonyms: Colloquy (adj. colloquial): conversation between two or more persons; dialogue: conversation
between
two persons.
- MOROSE: Gloomy; ill-humoured.
Sentence:
* Shunned because of his morose temper.
Synonyms: Sulky, Crabbed, Sullen, Splenetic, Saturnine.
Antonyms: Blithe, Genial.
- MOTLEY: Of various colors; of mixed ingredients.
Sentence:
* A motley costume; a motley crowd.
Synonyms: Checkered (referring to a
varied career), Piebald, Variegated, Diverse, Heterogeneous
Antonym: Homogeneous.
- MOTTLED: Spotted or streaked with varied colors.
Sentence:
* A mottled pony.
Synonyms: Blotched, Dappled.
- MUNDANE: Of, or pertaining to, the world, as contrasted with the spirit.
Sentence:
* Mundane affairs.
Synonyms: Earthly, Terrestrial, Secular, Temporal.
- MURKY: Dark; cloudy.
Sentence:
* A murky cavern.
Synonyms: Dismal, Tenebrous, Fuliginous.
Antonyms: Resplendent, Glowing, Lustrous, Luminous, Fulgent, Coruscating.
- MUTABLE: Given to frequent change in nature, mood, or form.
Sentence:
* Mutable in mood as a spring wind.
Synonyms: Vacillating, Fickle, Inconstant, Fitful, Mercurial, Wavering, Capricious
Antonyms: Constant, Steady.
- MYRIAD: Innumerable.
Sentence:
* The myriad stars in the heavens.
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