Alphabet "M" | Dictionary Words - Class 6 PDF Download

100 Words Starting with "M"

1. macabre: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
   Thus was uncovered one of history’s most macabre bouts of serial killing.
2. machination: a crafty and involved plot to achieve your ends
   With life experiences like those behind her, the extreme plot machinations of Hollywood melodrama must have possessed an everyday familiarity for Stanwyck.
3. maculate: spot, stain, or pollute
   It fell upon their faces, touching their whiteness with a ruddy tinge, accentuating the stains with which so many of them were freaked and maculated.
4. maelstrom: a powerful circular current of water
   The entire bowl was now a maelstrom of swirling bodies, legs and arms.
5. magnanimous: noble and generous in spirit
   She will love to dwell on that large, generous, magnanimous, open, forgiving heart.
6. magniloquent: lofty in style
   The day was spent in magniloquent addresses, which affected the style of ancient types, urgent exhortations to war, poetical orations, rounds of applause, rapturous demonstrations.
7. magnitude: the property of relative size or extent
   But an aftershock of almost the same magnitude, less deep that the first quake, hit soon after he finished speaking.
8. maim: injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration
   Think of the maimed, the mutilated, the mangled!
9. majestic: having or displaying great dignity or nobility
   By-and-by the three temples loomed into view, standing in all their beauty on the barren waste, majestic, uninjured, extraordinary.
10. malady: any unwholesome or desperate condition
    As with most of the infectious maladies, scarlet fever extended to the Western World through European shipping.
11. malaise: a feeling of mild sickness or depression
    Sammy was placed on antibiotics in case a bacterial infection was causing his fever and malaise.
12. malapropism: misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
    New words are eagerly seized; hence the malapropisms and solecisms so frequently made fun of, without appreciation of their cause.
13. malevolent: wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
    They are malevolent and murderous and may be summoned by black magic.
14. malice: the desire to see others suffer
    But it would have been easy enough to simply say that no malice was intended and she regretted if anyone was offended by the phrase.
15. malignant: dangerous to health
    The latest growth is “most likely malignant,” Chávez conceded – aggressively so, medical experts are suggesting – leaving him “preparing to face the worst.”
16. malingerer: someone shirking duty by feigning illness or incapacity
    On the other hand, the malingerer may actually produce injuries on his person either to excite commiseration or to escape from work.
17. malleable: easily influenced
    Laws are malleable, and courts can be purchased or influenced to a local’s advantage.
18. manifestation: an indication of the existence of some person or thing
    Nay, the process was going on within, though its visible manifestations may have ceased.
19. manifold: many and varied; having many features or forms
    Then, too, there are innumerable separate agencies, working in ways manifold and diverse.
20. manipulate: influence or control shrewdly or deviously
    It says Google manipulated Safari users into believing they could permanently opt out of targeted advertising, when in reality they couldn’t.
21. manumit: free from slavery or servitude
    The slave, now free, would lay down his life for the man who has manumitted him.
22. mar: cause to become imperfect
    This energetic and clear-textured approach allowed for plenty of striking details of percussion and phrasing, marred only by a few brass blemishes.
23. marital: of or relating to the state of marriage
    In many jurisdictions, if your separately owned property increases in value during the marriage, that increase is also considered marital property.
24. maritime: relating to ships or navigation
    In any case, the report argues, international maritime law in theory obligates ships to come to the assistance of those in trouble at sea.
25. martyr: one who suffers for the sake of principle
    Despite the pounding summer sun, Protesters turned out to demand justice for those killed during the revolution, who are seen as martyrs for democracy.
26. materialistic: marked by a desire for wealth and possessions
    Moreover, in contrast to the dominant thinking of our age, which is materialistic, King's philosophy is spiritual and religious.
27. materialize: come into being; become reality
    As ties warmed, the two countries discussed joint ventures, though most haven’t materialized.
28. maternal: characteristic of a mother
    Maternal mortality rates are also high, with 85 women dying in childbirth for every 100,000 live births, Tidey said.
29. matriarchy: social organization in which a female is the family head
    In effect, however, women owned the country and women governed it; suddenly the matriarchy existed.
30. matrix: an enclosure within which something originates or develops
    Today, Web music services are spread across the entire range of the price/convenience/permanence matrix.
31. maturation: the process of an individual organism growing organically
    Again, that is a very fast maturation rate, making it efficient for breeding in the lab.
32. maudlin: effusively or insincerely emotional
    He detested the florid sentimentality of some other universities, the maudlin old grads singing of bright college years!
33. maul: injure badly
    Or if Sleepless in Seattle ended with Meg Ryan being graphically mauled to death by an escaped tiger.
34. maven: one who is very skilled in or knowledgeable about a field
    The Deadhead community boasts any number of recording engineers, lighting experts, rock video mavens, electronic technicians of all descriptions.
35. maverick: independent in behavior or thought
    He's still the same maverick, independent spirit he has always been.
36. mawkish: effusively or insincerely emotional
    Herself full of mawkish sentimentality, her verses could not fail to be foolish, their whole impulse being the ambition that springs from self-admiration.
37. maxim: a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
    As we are hastily reading books and papers we continually come across maxims, epigrams, and short, pithy sayings that attract us.
38. mayhem: violent and needless disturbance
    Although some graffiti had already been removed, evidence of the previous night's mayhem was visible in broken display cases.
39. meager: deficient in amount or quality or extent
    Prime Minister John Key said he was spreading his Marmite more thinly to stretch his meager and dwindling supply.
40. meander: move or cause to move in a winding or curving course
    That route turns out to be a long and meandering one, ending up at an ambiguous, or at least ambivalent, conclusion.
41. mediate: act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
    The United States has waded into the conflict in recent months saying it was willing to mediate disputes between smaller countries and China.
42. melancholy: characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
    I heard a melancholy murmuring, something like suppressed sighing and sobbing, with words between that I could not make out.
43. melee: a noisy riotous fight
    The Washington Post said the melee broke out in the fourth quarter as members of both teams tackled and threw punches at one another.
44. mellifluous: pleasing to the ear
    There was much of this in our great man, whose voice became of the sweetest and most mellifluous key, as he bent before the peer.
45. melodramatic: characteristic of acting or a stage performance
    Its melodramatic characters striking theatrical postures are uninspiring, to put it mildly.
46. memorabilia: a record of things worth remembering
    Construction workers on Thursday buried a stainless steel time capsule with memorabilia relating to President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island.
47. menace: express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture
    And raising her stick in her shaking hand, she made a gesture so menacing that, fearing she would strike him, my lord stepped back.
48. menagerie: a collection of live animals for study or display
    If my cell were big enough, I should walk round and round as I have seen the caged animals do in menageries.
49. mendacious: intentionally untrue
    He is tempted to make ambiguous statements; pledges, with secret passages of escape; contracts, with fraudulent constructions; lying excuses, and more mendacious promises.
50. mendicant: a pauper who lives by begging
    In others are the broken-down mendicants who live on soup-kitchens and begging. 
51. menial: relating to unskilled work, especially domestic work
    He can always get work at unskilled manual labour, or personal or domestic service - in other words, at menial employment.
52. mercantile: relating to or characteristic of trade or traders
    But external trade is regulated by governments on the principles of the mercantile system.
53. mercenary: a person hired to fight for another country than their own
    "The Expendables" revolves around a group of mercenaries hired to overthrow a South American dictator.
54. mercurial: liable to sudden unpredictable change
    Wind energy is notoriously mercurial, with patterns shifting drastically over the course of years, days, even minutes.
55. meretricious: tastelessly showy
    Education and extensive reading have preserved them from faults of gaudiness and meretricious ornament.
56. mesmerize: attract strongly, as if with a magnet
    The range of Ms. Traoré’s performance as Barbary — her rich and mesmerizing voice, regal bearing and fluid movement — has enchanted critics.
57. metamorphosis: striking change in appearance or character or circumstances
    In the film Nina goes through a metamorphosis onstage, from sweet swan to a thrashing, rabid, seething one, complete with feathers.
58. metaphor: a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
    We kept coming back to a metaphor of a big-game hunter looking for “ideas” instead of animals.
59. metaphysical: highly abstract and overly theoretical
    At the same time it is, when formulated, an abstract and metaphysical statement, which one cannot grasp at once, but to which one must grow.
60. methodical: characterized by orderliness
    Like most men who get through much work, Spencer was very methodical and orderly.
61. meticulous: marked by precise accordance with details
    Kuhn kept meticulous records, documenting all paintings, exhibits and sales.
62. mettle: the courage to carry on
    That was a task which tried their mettle, but once met and overcome, it fortified their courage to meet other ordeals.
63. microcosm: a miniature model of something
    In some ways what is playing out in this Ulster County town is a more colorful microcosm of affordable housing controversies elsewhere.
64. mien: a person's appearance, manner, or demeanor
    Then Essex, majestic in mien and regal-looking in demeanour, and seeming to carry on his dress the cost of whole manors.
65. migration: the periodic passage of groups of animals
    Wheatears complete this 14,500 kilometer journey in nearly 90 days, too, a marathon migration very rare for such little birds.
66. milieu: the environmental condition
    Adams is particularly good at capturing the rivalries, power struggles and pecking order in the newsroom, a milieu she knows intimately.
67. militant: a reformer disposed to hard-line policies
    Militants holed up in a tall building were firing rockets in different directions, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.
68. minion: a servile or fawning dependent
    They were common clay, mere ephemeral puppets, without hope of command, minions to take orders, necessary evils in an age of mechanism and high-speed commerce.
69. minuscule: very small
    The isotopes detected in Western states have been found in minuscule amounts, officials say, much too small to threaten health.
70. mirth: great merriment
    At times he was as silent and mysterious as the sphinx, at other times brimming over with mirth and merriment.
71. misanthrope: someone who dislikes people in general
    The misanthropes pretend that they despise humanity for its weakness.
72. misconstrue: interpret in the wrong way
    Unconsciously and boy-like, he did things which were often misconstrued as downright badness, whereas the boy had not the slightest intention of doing anything wrong.
73. miscreant: a person without moral scruples
    Among such characters there will be miscreants capable of any crime, and therefore there is always danger.
74. misnomer: an incorrect or unsuitable name
    "Boiled" custard is rather a misnomer as on no account must the boiling point be reached in cooking, for if the custard bubbles it curdles.
75. mitigate: lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
    Affliction is allayed, grief subsides, sorrow is soothed, distress is mitigated.
76. mnemonic: of or relating to the practice of aiding the memory
    He was able to beef up his memory by learning mnemonic techniques.
77. modest: limited in size or scope
    For women’s coaches, however, third-party funds are modest, if they exist at all.
78. modicum: a small or moderate or token amount
    He volunteered a modicum of advice, limited in quantity, but valuable.
79. mollify: cause to be more favorably inclined
    Some cups of very good coffee had somewhat mollified him, and he came out smiling and talking in tolerably restored humor.
80. momentous: of very great significance
    By this momentous act Lewis XVI., without being conscious of its significance, went over to the democracy.
81. monetary: relating to or involving money
    The world's major central banks are opening up the monetary spigots once again, pumping new money into their economies to bolster growth.
82. moniker: a familiar name for a person
    He has been going by his childhood moniker for so long, it is the only name most people know.
83. monolithic: characterized by rigidity and total uniformity
    The two layers are placed within 10 minutes of each other, the purpose being to secure a monolithic or one-piece slab.
84. monotheism: belief in a single God
    From that it passes on to monotheism, the belief in one God, who is the sole author and creator of the universe.
85. monotonous: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
    The old man stopped suddenly, having told all his story in a dull, monotonous voice, with little feeling and no dramatic display.
86. moot: of no legal significance, as having been previously decided
    Emanuel also declined to say whether he will consider a write-in campaign - a moot point if the high court deems him ineligible.
87. moratorium: suspension of an ongoing activity
    Drilling activity was suspended on June 12 under a moratorium the U.S. placed on exploration in waters deeper than 500 feet.
88. morbid: suggesting the horror of death and decay
    I have been attending a lot of funerals recently and this has brought back to the fore my morbid fascination with funerals.
89. mores: the conventions embodying the fundamental values of a group
    Societal attitudes toward servants are often shaped by ingrained mores about caste and class.
90. morose: showing a brooding ill humor
    He was never jolly now, but always discontented, and generally querulous, morose, or violently angry.
91. mortify: cause to feel shame
    She could have wished that there should never be moonlight more, so shamed and mortified and humiliated did she feel.
92. motif: a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors
    Mr. Dine’s other recurring motifs — hearts, tools and Venuses — are scattered throughout the other galleries and the museum grounds.
93. motley: consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
    All sorts and conditions of men were represented in the huge and motley throng.
94. mull: reflect deeply on a subject
    Thinkers like Aristotle have mulled over such questions for centuries, says philosopher Mark Vernon in the Magazine's series on modern ethical dilemmas.
95. multitudinous: too numerous to be counted
    Here, along the lines of multitudinous houses, up one street and down another, he wondered which of them might be occupied by her.
96. mundane: found in the ordinary course of events
    But researchers say one thing has not changed and spans the divides - the temporary escape from the mundane routine of everyday life.
97. munificent: very generous
    My munificent, generous angel will come now and then, and from her cornucopia shower her gifts upon me.
98. mutiny: open rebellion against constituted authority
    Slaves make insurrection; soldiers or sailors break out in mutiny; subject provinces rise in revolt.
99. myriad: a large indefinite number
    In this case, hundreds of drugs are involved, each with myriad approved uses in various animals.
100. mythical: based on or told of in traditional stories
     Dating back to classical antiquity, Corinth was reputedly the home of Pegasus, the winged mythical horse.