Word List 29

lout

clumsy person
low

to moo
lucre

money
lugubrious

mournful
lull

a temporary calm
lumen

unit of light energy (one candle's worth)
luminary

celebrity; dignitary
lurid

wild; sensational; graphic; gruesome
slink

sneak; lurk
luscious

pleasing to taste or smell
luster

shine; gloss
lustrous

shining
macabre

gruesome; grisly
macerate

to soften by soaking in liquid; waste away
Machiavellian

crafty; double-dealing
machinations

evil schemes or plots
maculated

spotted; stained
madrigal

pastoral song
imperious

domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing; imperative
magisterial

authoritative; imperious
magniloquent

boastful; pompous
maladroit

lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless
malady

illness
malaise

uneasiness; vague feeling of ill health
malapropism

ridiculous misuse of a word
malediction

curse
malefactor

evildoer; criminal
malevolent

wishing evil
malfeasance

wrongdoing
malign

to defame
malignant

injurious; tending to cause death
manacle

to restrain; handcuff
mangy

shabby; wretched
manifesto

declaration; statement of policy
manifold

numerous; varied
mannered

affected; not natural
manumit

to emancipate; free from bondage
maritime

bordering on the sea
extemporaneous

done, spoken, performed, etc., without special advance preparation; impromptu
martial

warlike
martinet

a strict disciplinarian
masochist

person who enjoys his own pain
matriculate

to enroll (in college or graduate school)
matrix

point of origin
maul

to handle roughly

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