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vocab builder 19
menial-nadir
Question | Answer |
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suitable for servants; low | menial |
teacher | mentor |
concerning trade | mercantile |
interested in money or gain | mercenary |
fickle; changing | mercurial |
flashy; tawdry | meretricious |
a pastry decoration made of white of eggs | meringue |
high flat-topped hill | mesa |
pertaining to the art of removing metals from ores | metallurgical |
change of form | metamorphosis |
pertaining to speculative philosophy | metaphysical |
measure; distribute | mete |
excessively careful | meticulous |
large city | metropolis |
courage; spirit | mettle |
group of stables built around a courtyard | mews |
demeanor; bearing | mien |
changing its habitat; wandering | migrant |
wandering | migratory |
work against | militate |
affectedly dainty | mincing |
unreal reflection; optical illusion | mirage |
mischance; ill luck | misadventure |
one who hates mankind | misanthrope |
error; misunderstanding | misapprehension |
intermarriage between races | miscegenation |
mixture of writings on various subjects | miscellany |
ill luck | mischance |
wretch; villain | miscreant |
minor crime | misdemeanor |
doubts | misgivings |
accident | mishap |
wrong name; incorrect designation | misnomer |
hater of women | misogynist |
object to be thrown or projected | missile |
very small object or creature; small coin | mite |
appease | mitigate |
movable; not fixed | mobile |
prevailing style | mode |
limited quantity | modicum |
fashionable | modish |
toning down; changing from one key to another | modulation |
half; part | moiety |
soothe | mollify |
shed or cast off hair or feathers | molt |
melted | molten |
very important | momentous |
pertaining to money | monetary |
belief in one god | monotheism |
fits of depression or gloom | moodiness |
debatable | moot |
given to unwholesome thought; gloomy | morbid |
biting; sarcastic; stinging | mordant |
customs | mores |
at the point of death | moribund |
ill-humoured; sullen | morose |
undertaker | mortician |
humiliate; punish the flesh | mortify |
small speck | mote |
theme | motif |
parti-colored; mixed | motley |
charlatan; boastful pretender | mountebank |
confuse; mix up | muddle |
warm and damp | muggy |
defraud a person of something | mulct |
having many forms | multiform |
having many languages | multilingual |
state of being numerous | multiplicity |
wordly as opposed to spirirtual | mundane |
very generous | munificent |
darkness; gloom | murkiness |
ponder | muse |
having the odor of musk | musky |
stale; spoiled by age | musty |
changing in form; fickle | mutable |