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Question | Answer |
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libertine | immoral person |
licentious | lawless or immoral |
liege | lord; master |
lieu | (in lieu of) in place of; instead of |
Lilliputian | very small |
limber | easily bent |
limpid | transparent |
lineage | ancestry |
lineaments | facial features |
linguist | skilled in languages |
lionize | to treat as important |
liquidate | to get rid of |
lissome | moving gracefully |
listless | indifferent |
literal | word for word |
lithe | graceful |
litigation | lawsuit |
livid | discolored from anger or embarrassment |
loath | unwilling |
loathe | to hate or feel disgust for |
locus | place |
logistics | the supply, movement, and maintenance of equipment |
loiter | to hang around |
loll | to lounge about or to droop |
loquacious | very talkative |
lot | fate |
lout | an awkward, stupid person |
lowly | humble or ordinary |
lucent | shining |
lucid | easy to understand |
lucrative | profitable |
ludicrous | ridiculous |
lugubrious | mournful |
luminous | bright |
lupine | fierce |
lurch | sudden, forward movement |
lurid | shocking |
lurk | to like concealed or to stay hidden |
lush | abundant |
macabre | gruesome |
machination | evil design |
macroscopic | visible to the naked eye |
maelstrom | whirlpool |
magnanimous | generous |
magnate | important person |
maim | to cripple |
maladroit | clumsy or unskillful |
malady | disease |
malaise | uneasiness |
malapropism | word humorously misused |
malediction | curse |
malefactor | villain |
malevolent | harmful |
malfeasance | wrongdoing |
malicious | spiteful |
malign | to speak badly about |
malignant | evil |
malingerer | one who pretends to be ill to avoid work |
malleable | adaptable |
manacle | handcuff |
mandarin | influential person |
mandate | an order |
manifest | obvious |
manifold | many |
manipulate | to handle with skill; to influence a person |
manumit | to set free |
maraud | to raid |
maritime | pertaining to the ocean |
marquee | a canopy over an entrance |
marred | damaged; ruined |
martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
masochist | one who enjoys his own pain |
masticate | to chew |
matriarchy | a society in which the mother is the head of the family |
matrix | a place of origin |
maudlin | very sentimental |
maul | to injure |
mausoleum | large tomb |
maverick | a nonconformist |
mawkish | overly sentimental |
maxim | a proverb or saying |
meager | inadequate; of poor quality |
mean | nasty or offensive; inferior or low; an average |
meander | to wander aimlessly |
mediate | to settle a dispute |
meditate | to think deeply |
medley | a mixture |