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vocab builder 19
menial-nadir
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| suitable for servants; low | menial |
| teacher | mentor |
| concerning trade | mercantile |
| interested in money or gain | mercenary |
| fickle; changing | mercurial |
| flashy; tawdry | meretricious |
| a pastry decoration made of white of eggs | meringue |
| high flat-topped hill | mesa |
| pertaining to the art of removing metals from ores | metallurgical |
| change of form | metamorphosis |
| pertaining to speculative philosophy | metaphysical |
| measure; distribute | mete |
| excessively careful | meticulous |
| large city | metropolis |
| courage; spirit | mettle |
| group of stables built around a courtyard | mews |
| demeanor; bearing | mien |
| changing its habitat; wandering | migrant |
| wandering | migratory |
| work against | militate |
| affectedly dainty | mincing |
| unreal reflection; optical illusion | mirage |
| mischance; ill luck | misadventure |
| one who hates mankind | misanthrope |
| error; misunderstanding | misapprehension |
| intermarriage between races | miscegenation |
| mixture of writings on various subjects | miscellany |
| ill luck | mischance |
| wretch; villain | miscreant |
| minor crime | misdemeanor |
| doubts | misgivings |
| accident | mishap |
| wrong name; incorrect designation | misnomer |
| hater of women | misogynist |
| object to be thrown or projected | missile |
| very small object or creature; small coin | mite |
| appease | mitigate |
| movable; not fixed | mobile |
| prevailing style | mode |
| limited quantity | modicum |
| fashionable | modish |
| toning down; changing from one key to another | modulation |
| half; part | moiety |
| soothe | mollify |
| shed or cast off hair or feathers | molt |
| melted | molten |
| very important | momentous |
| pertaining to money | monetary |
| belief in one god | monotheism |
| fits of depression or gloom | moodiness |
| debatable | moot |
| given to unwholesome thought; gloomy | morbid |
| biting; sarcastic; stinging | mordant |
| customs | mores |
| at the point of death | moribund |
| ill-humoured; sullen | morose |
| undertaker | mortician |
| humiliate; punish the flesh | mortify |
| small speck | mote |
| theme | motif |
| parti-colored; mixed | motley |
| charlatan; boastful pretender | mountebank |
| confuse; mix up | muddle |
| warm and damp | muggy |
| defraud a person of something | mulct |
| having many forms | multiform |
| having many languages | multilingual |
| state of being numerous | multiplicity |
| wordly as opposed to spirirtual | mundane |
| very generous | munificent |
| darkness; gloom | murkiness |
| ponder | muse |
| having the odor of musk | musky |
| stale; spoiled by age | musty |
| changing in form; fickle | mutable |