M's, N's and O's Flashcards

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Magnanimous

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Courageous, generous, or noble

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Malevolent

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Purposefully wishing harm on others

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Manifest

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Clearly recognizable or to make clear or a list of transported goods or passengers used for record keeping

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Mar

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To inflict damage or blemishes on

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Melancholy

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Glum or deep contemplative thought

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Melodramatic

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Overly emotional or sentimental

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Mercurial

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Prone to sudden unpredictable change; volatile

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Metamorphosis

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A transformation or change

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Meticulous

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Devoting a high amount of attention to detail

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Mettle

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Courage

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Minuscule

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Extremely small; unimportant

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Miscreant

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Villain; evildoer

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Mitigate

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Causing something to be less intense, forceful, or harmful

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Mollify

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To calm down or alleviate; to soften

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Munificence

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The act of liberally giving

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Nascent

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Just beginning to exist

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Negligent

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Characterized by carelessness and neglectfulness

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Negligible

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Meaningless and insignificant

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Nostalgia

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A bittersweet longing for the past

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Noxious

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Unwholesome or harmful

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Obdurate

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Firm, stubborn

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Obscurity

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The condition of being unknown

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Obsolete

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No longer in use; outmoded or old-fashioned

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Obtuse

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Lacking intellectual clarity; blunt, or slow-witted

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Obviate

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To render unnecessary

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Odious

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Arousing or deserving strong hatred

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Onerous

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Very troublesome or oppressively difficult

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Ostracize

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To eliminate from a group