GRE words M 1

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  1. macabre
    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  2. morgue
    a building or room where dead bodies are kept before burial
  3. mace
    a ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office
  4. macerate
    soften and cause to disintegrate as a result
  5. Machiavellian
    of or relating to amoral or conniving political principles
  6. machination
    a crafty and involved plot to achieve your ends
  7. maculate
    morally blemished; stained or impure
  8. madrigal
    an unaccompanied partsong for several voices
  9. maelstrom
    a powerful circular current of water
  10. magisterial
    of or relating to a civil officer who administers the law
  11. magistrate
    a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law
  12. magnanimity
    nobility and generosity of spirit
  13. magnate
    a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
  14. magniloquent
    lofty in style
  15. magnitude
    the property of relative size or extent
  16. maim
    injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration
  17. mangle
    destroy or injure severely
  18. maladroit
    not quick or skillful in action or thought
  19. malady
    impairment of normal physiological function
  20. malaise
    a feeling of mild sickness or depression
  21. malapropism
    misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
  22. malaprop
    the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
  23. malcontent
    dissatisfied as toward authority
  24. malediction
    the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil
  25. malefactor
    someone who has committed a crime
  26. maleficent
    harmful or evil in intent or effect
  27. malevolent
    wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
  28. malfeasance
    wrongful conduct by a public official
  29. malicious
    having the nature of threatening evil
  30. malign
    speak unfavorably about
  31. malignant
    dangerous to health
  32. malingerer
    someone shirking duty by feigning illness or incapacity
  33. malleable
    capable of being shaped or bent
  34. malodorous
    having an unpleasant smell
  35. mammal
    a warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin covered with hair
  36. mammoth
    extinct elephant widely distributed in the Pleistocene
  37. manacle
    shackle that can be locked around the wrist
  38. mandate
    a formal statement of a command to do something
  39. mangy
    affected with a skin disease causing itching and hair loss
  40. mange
    a skin disease causing inflammation, itching, and hair loss
  41. maniacal
    wildly disordered
  42. manifest
    clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
  43. manifesto
    a public declaration of intentions
  44. manifold
    many and varied; having many features or forms
  45. manipulate
    influence or control shrewdly or deviously
  46. mannered
    having unnatural behavioral attributes
  47. mannerism
    a behavioral attribute that is distinctive to an individual
  48. manumit
    free from slavery or servitude
Created on Mon Jun 11 03:31:16 EDT 2012 (updated Mon Jun 11 03:42:14 EDT 2012)

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