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word list:29
lout--maul
Question | Answer |
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lout | clumsy person |
low | moo(sound by bovines) |
lucrative | profitable |
lucre | money |
ludicrous | laughable;trifling |
lugubrious | mournful |
lull | moment of calm |
lumber | move heavily or clumsily |
lumen | unit of light energy(one candle's worth) |
luminary | celebrity;dignitary |
lunge | make a quick foreward dive or each;thrust |
lurid | wild;sensational;graphic;gruesome |
lurk | steathily lie in waiting;slink;exist unperceived |
luscious | pleasing to taste or smell |
macabre | gruesome;grisly |
mace | ceremonial staff;clublike medieval weapon |
macerate | soften by soaking in liquid;waste away |
Machiavellian | crafty;double-dealing |
machinations | evil schemes;plots |
maculated | spotted;stained |
madrigal | pastoral song |
maelstorm | whirlpool |
magnanimity | generosity |
magnate | person of prominence or influence |
magniloquent | boastful;pompous |
maladroit | clumsy;bungling |
malady | illness |
malapropism | comic misuse of a word |
malediction | curse |
malefactor | evildoer;criminal |
malevolent | wishing evil |
malfeasance | wrongdoing |
malign | speak evil of;bad mouthed;defame |
malingerer | one who feigns illness to escape duty |
mammoth | gigantic;enormous |
manacle | restrain;handcuff |
mangy | shabby;wretched |
manifesto | declaration;statement of policy |
manifold | numerous;varied |
mannered | affected;not natural |
manumit | emancipate;free from bondage |
maritime | bordering on the sea;nautical |
marred | damaged;disfigured |
marshal | put in order |
martinet | Someone who demands exact conformity to rules and form |
masochist | person who enjoys his own pain |
matriculate | enroll(in college or graduate school) |
matrix | point of originn;array of numbers or algebraic numbers;mold or die |
maudlin | effusively sentimental |
maul | handle roughly |