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material - adjective and noun Example: She is a material witness of the crime. adjectiveExample: Be careful with that combustible material. noun... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
mathematics - correct spelling mathematics - noun Example: He learned to add and subtract at an early age, so he majored in mathematics in college.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
measure - verb and noun Example: He tried to measure the acreage of his field. verbExample: Americans use the gallon as the measure of liquids. nounExample: The senate passed the measure to lower taxes. noun... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
medicine - noun Example: Matthew studied medicine in Richmond, Virginia.Example: This new medicine might be the cure for cancer.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
medieval - adjective Example: He studied medieval architecture in college... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
memento - noun Not momento.Example: He kept a lock of her hair as a memento.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
might - auxiliary verb and noun Example: He might win. He might not. auxiliary verbExample: He swung the bat with all his might. noun... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
millennium - noun Not millenium.Example: In the late 1990s, everyone made plans to celebrate the next millennium.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
million - adjective and noun Example: He won a million dollars in the golf tournament. adjectiveExample: She’s one in a million. noun... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
millionaire - correct spelling millionaire - noun Example: The millionaire donated money to save the old house.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
miniature - noun and adjective Example: He bought a miniature of the Washington Monument. nounExample: The miniature soldier delighted the little boy. adjective... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
minimum - noun and adjective Example: We will reduce our risks to a minimum. nounExample: We can make this investment with minimum risk. adjective... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
minuscule - adjective Note: The word derives from the Latin minus meaning “less.” In much writing, you’ll find it spelled miniscule, probably because of the prefix mini- in the sense “of a small size.” Because of the frequency of mini... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
minutes - noun Example: She always watches 60 Minutes.Example: The secretary read the minutes of the last meeting.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
minutia - noun (plural minutiae) Note: Most people use the word to mean “small details.” They should therefore opt for the plural minutiae.Example: This small piece of minutia brought down the entire project. noun (singular)Example: Don’t... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
miracle - noun Example: Her recovery was a miracle that baffled the doctors.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
miscellaneous - correct spelling miscellaneous - adjective Example: He read a collection of miscellaneous articles.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
mischief - noun Example: The destruction of the church was the mischief of vandals.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
mischievous - correct spelling mischievous - adjective Not mischievious.Example: The children played some mischievous pranks last night.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
misogyny - noun Example: The patriarchal religion centered around a curious brand of misogyny.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
missile - noun Example: He pretended his pencil was a nuclear missile.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
misspell - verb Not mispell.When the last letter of a prefix (mis) matches the first letter of the root word (spell), you do not drop either the last letter of the prefix or the first letter of the root word. Thus: granddaughter and misspell... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
misspelled - verb (past tense and past participle of the verb misspell) and adjective When the last letter of a prefix (mis) matches the first letter of the root word (spelled), you do not drop either the last letter of the prefix or the first ... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
mistake - noun and verb Note: The past tense of the verb mistake is mistook. The past participle is mistaken.Example: His mistake led to his dismissal. nounExample: In the future, I will try not to mistake her for her sister. verbExample: She m... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
momentous - adjective Example: These momentous events precipitated a war.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
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