Vocab 241-260 Flashcards
Minutiae
Minute or minor details
Misogyny
Hatred of woman
Mollify
To soften, pacify, soothe
Moot
Of no practical significance (a moot point”: so hypothetical as to be meaningless)
Muckraker
One who searches out and exposes real or apparent misconduct of prominent individuals
Mutable
Changeable; tending, or able to change
Myriad
Many, a great number, innumerable
Nebulous
Vague, indistinct
Nefarious
Evil, vicious, flagrantly wicked
Nepotism
Favoritism to a friend or relative in business or politics
Non sequitur
A remark or a conclusion that does not follow the conversation or reasoning that came before it
Notorious
Widely and unfavorably known; famous, generally for something bad
Nullify
To invalidate; to make legally null and void
Obdurate
Stubborn, unyielding, inflexible
Obliterate
To remove utterly from recognition, memory, or existence