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Machination

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A complex scheme with numerous elements

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Macabre

Muh CAW bruh

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Lurid

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Maculate

MA cyu late

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Not immaculate
1 spotty, blotchy
2 morally blemished

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Maelstrom

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A powerful whirlpool
Metaphor:
Political Disaster with competing forces

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Magnanimous

NAN

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Noble, generous, saint like

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Magniloquent

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Fancy and lofty language

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Malady

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An illness

Or deplorable condition (jetlag)

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Malaise

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N
Discomfort
You don’t feel good
“Experiencing malaise”

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Manifold

MAN

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Multiple

The benefits of music are manifold

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Manumit

man yu MIT

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To set free

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Mar

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To make imperfect

An imperfection

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Maturation

Mah chur AE shun

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The process of maturing

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Maudlin

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  1. Bathetic

2. Very sincerely emotional

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Maven

MAY

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Someone dazzlingly skilled in a field

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Maverick

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Independent in behavior, a rebel

Noun or adjective

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Mawkish

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Bathetic

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Mellifluous

LIF

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Pleasing to the ear

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Memorabilia

BEE

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A record of memories

Items that remind you of memories

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Menagerie

NA

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A collection of live animals

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Mendacious

DAY

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Telling Intentionally untrue lies

A mendacious person

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Mendicant

MEN di cint

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People who live off of begging

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Mercurial

CURE

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Liable to sudden unpredictable behavioral changes

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Meretricious

TRIH

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Pretending to be something you aren’t

Meretricious diamond earrings

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Mettle

A

N

The courage to carry on

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Microcosm

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A miniature model

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Mien

“Mean”

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How you present yourself

“My mien”

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Milieu

Mil YOU

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Your surrounding environment

He grew up in a milieu of poverty

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Mirth

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Good times
Fun and enjoyment
“Night of mirth”

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Misanthrope

MIS

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I hate people

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Misconstrue

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Interpret wrongly

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Miscreant

MIS

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A bad person

Really bad

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Misnomer

NO

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Unsuitable name

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Mitigate

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Lessen the unpleasantness of a situation

Mitigate their anger

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Modicum

MOD

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A small amount

“I have a modicum of interest

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Mollify

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To calm someone down

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Moniker

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Nickname

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Monolithic

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Both big and made of one thing

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Moot

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Irrelevant

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Moratorium

TOR

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The suspension of an activity

“After the plumbing imploded, the principal put a moratorium on drinking water”

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Morose

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Sullen
Gloomy
Sad
A morose person has a cloud of sorrow following them.

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Motley

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Disorganized

Haphazardly arranged

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Multitudinous

TOO

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Countless, infinite, innumerable

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Munificent

NIH

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Very generous

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