SAT Words That Start With M

Jane D. (United States of America)
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  1. machination
    a crafty and involved plot to achieve your ends
  2. madrigal
    an unaccompanied partsong for several voices
  3. magnate
    a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
  4. maladroit
    not quick or skillful in action or thought
  5. malaise
    a feeling of mild sickness or depression
  6. malediction
    the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil
  7. malefactor
    someone who has committed a crime
  8. malevolent
    wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
  9. malign
    speak unfavorably about
  10. malingerer
    someone shirking duty by feigning illness or incapacity
  11. mannered
    having unnatural behavioral attributes
  12. marshal
    a military officer of highest rank
  13. martinet
    someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
  14. masochist
    someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment
  15. matriculate
    enroll as a student
  16. matrix
    an enclosure within which something originates or develops
  17. maudlin
    very sentimental or emotional
  18. mellifluous
    pleasing to the ear
  19. menagerie
    a collection of live animals for study or display
  20. mendacious
    given to lying
  21. mendicant
    a pauper who lives by begging
  22. mercenary
    a person hired to fight for another country than their own
  23. metaphysical
    pertaining to the philosophical study of being and knowing
  24. miasma
    an unwholesome atmosphere
  25. milieu
    the environmental condition
  26. militant
    engaged in war
  27. mincing
    affectedly dainty or refined
  28. mire
    a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
  29. misnomer
    an incorrect or unsuitable name
  30. missive
    a written message addressed to a person or organization
  31. mitigate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  32. modicum
    a small or moderate or token amount
  33. monastic
    relating to life in an isolated religious community
  34. monochromatic
    having or appearing to have only one color
  35. monolithic
    imposing in size or bulk or solidity
  36. montage
    the technique of splicing together different sections of film to convey an idea
  37. moratorium
    suspension of an ongoing activity
  38. mores
    the conventions embodying the fundamental values of a group
  39. mortician
    one whose business is the management of funerals
  40. mote
    a tiny piece of anything
  41. muggy
    hot or warm and humid
  42. mutability
    the quality of being capable of change
  43. mutinous
    characterized by a rebellion against authority
Created on Thu Oct 10 00:03:16 EDT 2013

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