Lout - Maul
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| Lout | clumsy person | ||||
| Low | to moo | ||||
| Lucid | easily understood; clear; intelligible | ||||
| Lucrative | profitable | ||||
| Lucre | money | ||||
| Ludicrous | laughable; trifling | ||||
| Lugubrious | mournful; dismal | ||||
| Lull | moment of calm | ||||
| Lumber | to move heavily or clumsily | ||||
| Lumen | unit of light energy (one candle’s worth) | ||||
| Luminary | celebrity; dignitary | ||||
| Luminous | shining; issuing light | ||||
| Lunar | pertaining to the moon | ||||
| Lunge | make a quick forward dive or reach; thrust | ||||
| Lurid | wild; sensational; graphic; gruesome | ||||
| Lurk | to stealthily lie in waiting; slink; exit unperceived | ||||
| Luscious | pleasing to taste or smell | ||||
| Luster | shine; gloss | ||||
| Lustrous | shining | ||||
| Luxuriant | abundant; rich and splendid; fertile | ||||
| Macabre | gruesome; grisly | ||||
| Mace | ceremonial staff; clublike medieval weapon | ||||
| Macerate | to soften by soaking in liquid; waste away | ||||
| Machiavellian | crafty; double*dealing | ||||
| Machinations | evil schemes or plots | ||||
| Maculated | spotted; stained | ||||
| Madrigal | pastoral song | ||||
| Maelstrom | whirlpool | ||||
| Magisterial | authoritative; imperious | ||||
| Magnanimity | generosity | ||||
| Magnate | person of prominence or influence | ||||
| Magniloquent | boastful, pompous | ||||
| Magnitude | greatness; extent | ||||
| Maim | to mutilate; to injure | ||||
| Maladroit | clumsy; bungling (unskilled) | ||||
| Malady | illness | ||||
| Malaise | uneasiness; vague felling of ill health | ||||
| Malapropism | comic misuse of a word | ||||
| Malcontent | person dissatisfied with existing state of affairs | ||||
| Malediction | curse | ||||
| Malefactor | evildoer; criminal | ||||
| Malevolent | wishing evil | ||||
| Malfeasance | wrongdoing | ||||
| Malicious | hateful; spiteful | ||||
| Malign | to speak evil of; bad*mouth; defame | ||||
| Malignant | injurious; tending to cause death; aggressively malevolent | ||||
| Malingerer | one who feigns illness to escape duty | ||||
| Malleable | capable of being shaped by pounding | ||||
| Malodorous | foul-smelling | ||||
| Mammal | vertebrate animal whose female suckles its young | ||||
| Mammoth | gigantic; enormous | ||||
| Manacle | to restrain; to handcuff | ||||
| Mandate | order; charge in his inaugural address | ||||
| Mangy | shabby; wretched | ||||
| Maniacal | raging mad; insane | ||||
| Manifest | evident; visible; obvious | ||||
| Manifestation | outward demonstration; indication | ||||
| Manifesto | declaration; statement of policy | ||||
| Manifold | numerous; varied | ||||
| Manipulate | to operate with one’s hands; to control or play upon artfully | ||||
| Mannered | affected; not natural | ||||
| Manumit | to emancipate; to free from bondage | ||||
| Marital | pertaining to marriage | ||||
| Maritime | bordering on the sea; nautical | ||||
| Marked | noticeable; targeted for vengeance | ||||
| Marred | damaged; disfigured | ||||
| Marshal | to put in order | ||||
| Marsupial | one of a family of mammals that nurse their offspring in a pouch | ||||
| Martial | warlike | ||||
| Martinet | no talking at meals | ||||
| Martyr | one who voluntarily suffers death for his or her religion or cause; great sufferer | ||||
| Masochist | person who enjoys his own pain | ||||
| Masticate | to chew | ||||
| Materialism | preoccupation with physical comforts and things | ||||
| Maternal | motherly | ||||
| Matriarch | a woman who rules a family or larger social group | ||||
| Matriculate | to enroll | ||||
| Matrix | point of origin; array of numbers or algebraic symbols; mold or die | ||||
| Maudlin | effusively sentimental | ||||
| Maul | to handle roughly |
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Created by:
triwaingle
on 2008-09-05