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machine - n. a device with moving parts used to do work?

magazine - n. a publication of news， stories， pictures or other information?

mail - n. letters， papers and other things sent through an official system， such as a
post office?

main - ad. the most important or largest?

major - ad. great in size， importance or amount?

majority - n. the greater number; more than half?

make - v. to produce; to create; to build; to do something or to carry out an action;
to cause to be or to become?

male - n. a man or boy; the sex that is the father of children; ad. of or about men?

man - n. an adult male human?

manufacture - v. to make goods in large amounts?

many - ad. a large number or amount of?

map - n. a picture of the earth’s surface or a part of it?

march - v. to walk in a group like soldiers; to walk together in a large group to
protest about something?

mark - v. to make a sign or cut on something?

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?

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)?

mass - n. an amount of matter having no special form and usually of a large size?

mate - v. to bring together a male and a female to create another creature?

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?

mathematics - n. the science dealing with amounts， sizes and shapes， as explained
by numbers and signs?

matter - n. anything that can be seen or felt; what things are made of?

may - v. a word used with an action word to mean permit or possible ("May I go?"
"They may leave tomorrow.")?

mayor - n. the chief official of a city or town government?

meal - n. food eaten to satisfy hunger， such as dinner?

mean - v. to want to; to give the idea of; to have the idea of?

measure - v. to learn the amount， size or distance of something; n. an action taken;
a legislative proposal?

meat - n. the part of a dead animal used for food?

media - n. all public information organizations， including newspapers， television and
radio?

medicine - n. a substance or drug used to treat disease or pain; the science or study
of treating and curing disease or improving health?

meet - v. to come together with someone or something at the same time and place?

melt - v. to make a solid into a liquid by heating it?

member - n. one of a group?

memorial - n. something done or made to honor the memory of a person or event?

memory - n. a picture in the mind of past events; the ability to remember; a thing
remembered?

mental - ad. about or having to do with the mind?

mercy - n. kindness toward those who should be punished; the power to be kind or
to pardon?

message - n. written or spoken news or information; a note from one person to
another person or group?

metal - n. a hard substance such as iron， steel or gold?

method - n. the way something is done?

microscope - n. a device used to make very small things look larger so they can be
studied?

middle - n. the center; a place or time of equal distance from both sides or ends; ad.
in the center?

militant - n. someone active in trying to cause political change， often by the use of
force or violence?

military - n. the armed forces of a nation or group; ad. of or about the armed forces?

milk - n. the white liquid produced by female animals to feed their young?

mind - n. the thinking， feeling part of a person?

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?

mineral - n. a substance found in nature that is not an animal or a plant， such as coal
or salt?

minister - n. a member of a cabinet; a high government official ("prime minister，"
"foreign minister")?

minor - ad. small in size; of little importance?

minority - n. the smaller number; opposite majority?

minute - n. a measure of time; one of the sixty equal parts of an hour; sixty seconds?

miss - v. to fail to hit， see， reach or meet?

missile - n. any weapon that can be thrown or fired through the air and explodes
when it reaches its target?

missing - ad. lost; not found?

mistake - n. a wrong action or decision; an action done without the knowledge that
it was wrong?

mix - v. to put different things together to make one thing?

mob - n. a large group of wild or angry people?

model - n. an example; something， usually small， made to show how something will
look or work?

moderate - ad. not extreme?

modern - ad. of the present or very recent time; the most improved?

money - n. pieces of metal or paper used to pay for things?

month - n. one of the twelve periods of time into which a year is divided?

moon - n. the bright object often seen in the night sky that orbits the earth about
every twenty-nine days?

moral - ad. concerning what is right or wrong in someone’s actions?

more - ad. greater in size or amount?

morning - n. the early part of the day， from sunrise until noon?

most - ad. greatest in size or amount?

mother - n. the female parent; a woman who has a child or children?

motion - n. a movement; a continuing change of position or place?

mountain - n. a part of the earth’s surface that rises high above the area around it?

mourn - v. to express or feel sadness?

move - v. to change position; to put or keep in motion; to go?

movement - n. the act of moving or a way of moving; a series of acts or efforts to
reach a goal?

movie - n. a motion picture; a film?

much - ad. great in amount?

murder - v. to kill another person illegally; n. the crime of killing another person?

music - n. the making of sounds by singing or using a musical instrument?

must - v. a word used with an action word to mean necessary ("You must go to
school.")?

mystery - n. something that is not or cannot be explained or understood; a secret