M Flashcards
Machination
A complex scheme with numerous elements
Macabre
Muh CAW bruh
Lurid
Maculate
MA cyu late
Not immaculate
1 spotty, blotchy
2 morally blemished
Maelstrom
A powerful whirlpool
Metaphor:
Political Disaster with competing forces
Magnanimous
NAN
Noble, generous, saint like
Magniloquent
Fancy and lofty language
Malady
An illness
Or deplorable condition (jetlag)
Malaise
N
Discomfort
You don’t feel good
“Experiencing malaise”
Manifold
MAN
Multiple
The benefits of music are manifold
Manumit
man yu MIT
To set free
Mar
To make imperfect
An imperfection
Maturation
Mah chur AE shun
The process of maturing
Maudlin
- Bathetic
2. Very sincerely emotional
Maven
MAY
Someone dazzlingly skilled in a field
Maverick
Independent in behavior, a rebel
Noun or adjective
Mawkish
Bathetic
Mellifluous
LIF
Pleasing to the ear
Memorabilia
BEE
A record of memories
Items that remind you of memories
Menagerie
NA
A collection of live animals
Mendacious
DAY
Telling Intentionally untrue lies
A mendacious person
Mendicant
MEN di cint
People who live off of begging
Mercurial
CURE
Liable to sudden unpredictable behavioral changes
Meretricious
TRIH
Pretending to be something you aren’t
Meretricious diamond earrings
Mettle
N
The courage to carry on