IBPS RRB Officers Selection Exam: Word List: Vocabulary M
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Word List: M
- macabre: Gruesome, suggesting death
- machination: Plot, scheme (esp. Evil)
- maladroit: Tactless, clumsy
- malapropism: Misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
- malevolence-wishing to do evil
- malign: Injurious, speak ill of smb, tell lie
- malinger: To fake illness or injury, in order to shirk a duty
- malleable: Yielding; easily shaped; moldable; adapting
- manacle: Chains for the hands or feet
- martial: Brave, of associated with war
- massacre: Cruel killing of a large number of people
- matriculation: Be admitted, enter a university as a student
- mature: Come to full development, to a state ready for use
- maudlin: Sentimental in a silly or tearful way
- maverick: Rebel, nonconformist
- mellifluous: Sweetly flowing
- mendacious-false
- mendacity: Dishonesty
- mendicant: a beggar
- mercurial: Quick, changeable in character, fleeting
- meretricious-attractive on the surface but of little value
- mesmerize: Hypnotize
- meticulous: Giving great attention to details
- mettle: Quality of endurance or courage
- mettlesome: Courageous, high-spirited
- middling: Fairly good but not very good
- minatory: Menacing, threatening
- mince: Pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize
- misanthrope: Person who hates mankind
- mischievous: Harmful, causing mischief
- miser: Person who loves wealth and spends little
- misogynist: One who hates women/females
- missile: Smth that is thrown or shot
- mitigate: Make less severe or painful
- moderation: Quality of being limited, not extreme
- mollify: Make calmer or quieter
- molt: Moult, lose hair, feathers before new growing
- morbid: Diseased, unhealthy (e. g. About ideas)
- morose: Ill-tempered, unsocial
- mortuary: Place where dead bodies are taken to be kept until burial
- multifarious: Varied, motley, greatly diversified
- mundane: Worldly as opposed to spiritual; commonplace, everyday
- myriad: Very great number
- malaise: A condition of uneasiness or ill-being.
- malcontent: One who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs.
- malevolence: Ill will.
- malign: To speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely. Malleable: Pliant.
- massacre: The unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings.
- maudlin: Foolishly and tearfully affectionate.
- mawkish: Sickening or insipid.
- mellifluous: Sweetly or smoothly flowing.
- mendacious: Untrue.
- mendicant: A beggar.
- meretricious: Alluring by false or gaudy show. Mesmerize: To hypnotize. Meticulous: Over-cautious. Mettle: Courage.
- mettlesome: Having courage or spirit. Misnomer: A name wrongly or mistakenly applied. Moderation: Temperance. Modicum: A small or token amount. Mollify: To soothe.
- molt: To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc. Monomania: The unreasonable pursuit of one idea.
- morbid: Caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind. Mordant: Biting.
- moribund: On the point of dying. Morose: Gloomy.
- multifarious: Having great diversity or variety. Mundane: Worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial. Munificent: Extraordinarily generous. Myriad: A vast indefinite number.