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Word List 29
Lout - Maul
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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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