Thursday 30 November 2023

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'M'

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English Vocabulary
Words Start from Letter 'M'

  1. MACHIAVELLIAN: Sacrificing moral principles in order to attain power; politically cunning; crafty.
    Sentence:
    * A Machiavellian design, wickedly contrived.
    Synonym: Unscrupulous.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. MAUDLIN: Sentimental to the point of tears.
    Sentence:
    * Turned maudlin at the mention of his lost dog.
    Synonym: Mawkish, Lachrymose.

  5. MEANDER: To walk about (or talk) aimlessly; to wind about (as a stream).
    Sentence:
    * Meandered through the town, looking into shop windows.
    Synonym: Ramble.

  6. MEDIOCRE: Average in quality.
    Sentence:
    * A mediocre performance, unworthy of his talents.

  7. MERCENARY: Acting solely from a consideration of reward or profit
    Sentence:
    * Actuated by a mercenary motive.
    Synonym: Venal.

  8. MERETRICIOUS: Attracting in a false, cheap, or showy manner.
    Sentence:
    * A meretricious beauty that is too flashy to be real.
    Synonyms: Tawdry, Specious.

  9. METICULOUS: Fussy about minute details.
    Sentence:
    * Took meticulous pains with his composition.
    Synonyms: Fastidious, Punctilious, Overscrupulous, Finical, Methodical.
    Antonyms: Desultory, Perfunctory, Slovenly.

  10. 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.

  11. 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).

  12. MIMIC: To make fun of or copy by imitating.
    Sentence:
    * Mimicked the comedian's gestures.

  13. MISANTHROPIC (noun: MISANTHROPE): Hating or distrusting mankind.
    Sentence:
    * Condemned for his misanthropic views.
    Antonyms: Philanthropic, Altruistic.

  14. MISNOMER: A name or term that describes wrongly
    Sentence:
    * To call him a brave man is really a misnomer.

  15. 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.

  16. MOROSE: Gloomy; ill-humoured.
    Sentence:
    *  Shunned because of his morose temper.
    Synonyms: Sulky, Crabbed, Sullen, Splenetic, Saturnine.
    Antonyms: Blithe, Genial.

  17. 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.

  18. MOTTLED: Spotted or streaked with varied colors.
    Sentence:
    * A mottled pony.
    Synonyms: Blotched, Dappled.

  19. MUNDANE: Of, or pertaining to, the world, as contrasted with the spirit.
    Sentence:
    * Mundane affairs.
    Synonyms: Earthly, Terrestrial, Secular, Temporal.

  20. MURKY: Dark; cloudy.
    Sentence:
    * A murky cavern.
    Synonyms: Dismal, Tenebrous, Fuliginous.
    Antonyms: Resplendent, Glowing, Lustrous, Luminous, Fulgent, Coruscating.

  21. 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.

  22. MYRIAD: Innumerable.
    Sentence:
    * The myriad stars in the heavens.


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