Special English word list: M

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Parts of speech: n. (noun) - a name word; (verb) - an action word; ad. (adjective/adverb) - a describing word; prep. (preposition) - a word used to show a relation; pro. (pronoun) - a word used in place of a noun; conj. (conjunction) - a joining word

M

1. machine - n. a device with moving parts used to do work
2. magazine - n. a publication of news, stories, pictures or other information
3. mail - n. letters, papers and other things sent through an official system, such as a post office
4. main - ad. the most important or largest
5. major - ad. great in size, importance or amount
6. majority - n. the greater number; more than half
7. make - v. to produce; to create; to build; to do something or to carry out an action; to cause to be or to become
8. male - n. a man or boy; the sex that is the father of children; ad. of or about men
9. man - n. an adult male human
10. manufacture - v. to make goods in large amounts
11. many - ad. a large number or amount of
12. map - n. a picture of the earth,s surface or a part of it
13. march - v. to walk in a group like soldiers; to walk together in a large group to protest about something
14. mark - v. to make a sign or cut on something
15. market - n. a place or area where goods are sold, bought or traded; an economic system in which the prices of things are decided by how many there are and how much money people are willing to pay for them
16. marry - v. to join a man and woman together as husband and wife; to become husband and wife (usually in a religious or civil ceremony)
17. mass - n. an amount of matter having no special form and usually of a large size
18. mate - v. to bring together a male and a female to create another creature
19. material - n. the substance, substances or matter of which something is made or from which something can be made, such as wood, cloth or stone; anything that can be made into something else
20. mathematics - n. the science dealing with amounts, sizes and shapes, as explained by numbers and signs
21. matter - n. anything that can be seen or felt; what things are made of
22. may - v. a word used with an action word to mean permit or possible (“May I go?” “They may leave tomorrow.”)
23. mayor - n. the chief official of a city or town government
24. meal - n. food eaten to satisfy hunger, such as dinner
25. mean - v. to want to; to give the idea of; to have the idea of
26. measure - v. to learn the amount, size or distance of something; n. an action taken; a legislative proposal
27. meat - n. the part of a dead animal used for food
28. media - n. all public information organizations, including newspapers, television and radio
29. medicine - n. a substance or drug used to treat disease or pain; the science or study of treating and curing disease or improving health
30. meet - v. to come together with someone or something at the same time and place
31. melt - v. to make a solid into a liquid by heating it
32. member - n. one of a group
33. memorial - n. something done or made to honor the memory of a person or event
34. memory - n. a picture in the mind of past events; the ability to remember; a thing remembered
35. mental - ad. about or having to do with the mind
36. mercy - n. kindness toward those who should be punished; the power to be kind or to pardon
37. message - n. written or spoken news or information; a note from one person to another person or group
38. metal - n. a hard substance such as iron, steel or gold
39. method - n. the way something is done
40. microscope - n. a device used to make very small things look larger so they can be studied
41. middle - n. the center; a place or time of equal distance from both sides or ends; ad. in the center
42. militant - n. someone active in trying to cause political change, often by the use of force or violence
43. military - n. the armed forces of a nation or group; ad. of or about the armed forces
44. milk - n. the white liquid produced by female animals to feed their young
45. mind - n. the thinking, feeling part of a person
46. mine - v. to dig useful or valuable substances out of the earth; n. a place in the earth where such substances are found; a bomb placed under the ground or under water so it cannot be seen
47. mineral - n. a substance found in nature that is not an animal or a plant, such as coal or salt
48. minister - n. a member of a cabinet; a high government official (“prime minister”, ”foreign minister”)
49. minor - ad. small in size; of little importance
50. minority - n. the smaller number; opposite majority
51. minute - n. a measure of time; one of the sixty equal parts of an hour; sixty seconds
52. miss - v. to fail to hit, see, reach or meet
53. missile - n. any weapon that can be thrown or fired through the air and explodes when it reaches its target
54. missing - ad. lost; not found
55. mistake - n. a wrong action or decision; an action done without the knowledge that it was wrong
56. mix - v. to put different things together to make one thing
57. mob - n. a large group of wild or angry people
58. model - n. an example; something, usually small, made to show how something will look or work
59. moderate - ad. not extreme
60. modern - ad. of the present or very recent time; the most improved
61. money - n. pieces of metal or paper used to pay for things
62. month - n. one of the twelve periods of time into which a year is divided
63. moon - n. the bright object often seen in the night sky that orbits the earth about every twenty-nine days
64. moral - ad. concerning what is right or wrong in someone’s actions
65. more - ad. greater in size or amount
66. morning - n. the early part of the day, from sunrise until noon
67. most - ad. greatest in size or amount
68. mother - n. the female parent; a woman who has a child or children
69. motion - n. a movement; a continuing change of position or place
70. mountain - n. a part of the earth’s surface that rises high above the area around it
71. mourn - v. to express or feel sadness
72. move - v. to change position; to put or keep in motion; to go
73. movement - n. the act of moving or a way of moving; a series of acts or efforts to reach a goal
74. movie - n. a motion picture; a film
75. much - ad. great in amount
76. murder - v. to kill another person illegally; n. the crime of killing another person
77. music - n. the making of sounds by singing or using a musical instrument
78. must - v. a word used with an action word to mean necessary (“You must go to school.”)
79. mystery - n. something that is not or cannot be explained or understood; a secret