Word List 30

Question 1

Martinet (n)

Answer 1

a person who demands complete obedience

Question 2

Maudlin (adj)

Answer 2

effusively sentimental
Whenever a particularly maudlin tearjerker was playing at the movies, Marvin would embarrass himself by weeping copiously

Question 3

Mealymouthed (adj)

Answer 3

indirect in speech; hypocritical; evasive

Rather than tell Jill directly what he disliked, Jack made a few mealymouthed

Question 4

Meek (adj)

Answer 4

submissive; patient and long-suffering

Question 5

Megalomania (n)

Answer 5

mania for doing grandiose things

Question 6

Mendacious (adj)

Answer 6

lying; habitually dishonest

Distrusting from the start, Miss Watson assumed he was mendacious

Question 7

Menial (adj)

Answer 7

suitable for servants

Question 8

Mercantile (adj)

Answer 8

concerning trade

Question 9

Mercurial (adj)

Answer 9

capricious; changing; fickle

Quick as quicksilver to change, he was mercurial in nature and therefore unreliable

Question 10

Mete (v)

Answer 10

measure; distribute

Question 11

Microcosm (n)

Answer 11

small world; the world in miniature

The village community that Jane Austen depicts serves as a microcosm of English society in her time

Question 12

Milieu (n)

Answer 12

environment; means of expression; place

Surrounded by smooth preppies and arty bohemians, the country boy from Small-town, USA felt out of his milieu

Question 13

Minatory (adj)

Answer 13

menacing; threatening

Jabbing a minatory forefinger at Dorothy, the Wicked Witch cried

Question 14

Minutiae (n)

Answer 14

petty details

She would have liked to ignore the minutiae of daily living