Implement, car, contrivance, auto,

mantlepiece, shelf, chimneybreast,

achievement, chef d'oeuvre,

tool, organization, gadget,

blanket, cape, sill, clavy, curtain,

standard, model, paragon, creation;

automobile, automaton

drape, drapery

(adj) prime, pick, nonpareil,

magisterially: (adv) authoritatively,

manual: (n) handbook, guide,

nonesuch

dictatorially, imperiously,

guidebook, primer, brochure,

match: (n, v) mate, meet, pair, fellow;

autocratically, peremptorily,

textbook, text, compendium,

(v) agree, harmonise, accord,

overbearingly, imperatively,

grammar, vade mecum, enchiridion.

correspond, harmonize; (adj, n, v)

domineeringly, dogmatically,

ANTONYMS: (adj) mechanized,

parallel; (n) peer. ANTONYMS: (v)

authoritarianly, commandingly

mechanical

contradict, conflict, disagree, jar,

magnanimous: (adj) generous, great,

marching: (n) walking, mar, drill;

differ; (n) difference

noble, bountiful, exalted, big,

(adj) ongoing, moving

matrimonial: (adj) marital, conjugal,

handsome, lofty, large, charitable,

margins: (n) limitations, borders,

married, bridal, nuptial, spousal,

considerate. ANTONYMS: (adj)

limits, confines, boundaries,

wedded, marriage, wedding,

miserly, unforgiving, petty

restrictions

hymeneal, household. ANTONYMS:

maid: (n) damsel, chambermaid, lass,

marked: (adj) conspicuous,

(adj) unmarried, divorced, public

lassie, girl, domestic, amah, virgin,

noticeable, pronounced, remarkable,

matrimonially: (adv) connubially,

maiden, housemaid, handmaid

distinguished, apparent, definite,

maritally, weddedly, nuptially,

maintain: (v) continue, assert, aver,

notable, obvious, signal, striking.

marriedly, spousally, hymeneally

preserve, defend, declare, guard,

ANTONYMS: (adj) plain,

matter: (n) business, substance, issue,

conserve, affirm; (n, v) justify,

imperceptible, unmarked, unclear,

material, affair, concern, incident,

allege. ANTONYMS: (v) change,

obscure, inconspicuous, ordinary,

article, subject; (n, v) case; (adj, n)

neglect, abandon, transform, quit,

loose, slight

import

grant, end, cancel, endanger, refute,

market: (n) fair, emporium,

mean: (adj, n) middle, low,

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contemptible, average, medium,

downright; (adv) merely; (adj, v)

plutocrat, millionairess, Croesus,

common; (v) design; (n, v) imply,

clear

Timon of Athens, affluent, dives,

denote; (adj) ignoble, hateful.

merit: (n, v) deserve; (adj, n)

man of means

ANTONYMS: (adj) generous, kind,

excellence, worth, desert; (n) virtue,

millions: (n) billions, jillions, trillions,

extravagant, charitable, luxurious,

credit, significance, value, goodness,

large indefinite amount, zillions,

rich, expansive, extreme, great; (n)

quality; (v) rate. ANTONYMS: (n)

myriad, large indefinite quantity

maximum, minimum

demerit, disgrace, fault,

millstone: (n) load, weight, tax,

means: (n) instrument, agency,

insignificance, mediocrity,

liability, encumbrance, hindrance,

income, assets, manner, funds,

commonness

handicap, impediment, albatross,

capital, channel, property, resource,

metaphorically: (adv) allegorically,

Millstone grit; (adj) lead

resources. ANTONYM: (n) poverty

symbolically, tralatitiously,

milton: (v) accomplish, achieve,

meant: (adj) destined, implied,

tropically, parabolically, parabolicly,

effect, execute, Keble, Macaulay; (n)

sincere, preordained, intentional,

symbolicly, typically

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predestined; (v) intend, designate

metaphysics: (n) ontology,

miltonic: (adj) Miltonian

meddle: (v) intervene, interfere,

metaphysic, outside actual

mimic: (adj, v) mock; (v) imitate,

intrude, monkey, interpose, fiddle,

experience, ontological,

mime, copy, impersonate, parody,

pry, dabble, interlope; (n)

cosmological, philosophy

emulate; (n, v) counterfeit; (n)

interference; (adj) moil. ANTONYM:

method: (n) course, fashion, form,

imitator, mimicker, ape

(v) disregard

system, order, approach,

mind: (n, v) intellect, notice, regard;

meet: (v) find, converge, assemble,

arrangement, way, manner,

(v) care, look, attend, beware, keep,

gather, fulfill, congregate, answer,

formula; (adj, n) plan. ANTONYMS:

listen, look after; (n) disposition.

cross, confront, intersect; (adv, v)

(n) chaos, disorderliness

ANTONYMS: (v) forget, neglect,

encounter. ANTONYMS: (v)

mezzotint: (n) mezzotinto, lithotint,

disregard, disobey, Miss, ignore; (n)

diverge, disperse, separate, part,

etching; (v) engrave

emotion, inattention; (adj) physical

leave, differ, disband

middle: (n) heart, hub, core, center;

mine: (adj, v) excavate, sap; (n)

meeting: (n) confluence, convention,

(adj, n) mean, median, mid; (adj)

excavation, pit, fund, land mine,

concourse, assembly, conference,

intermediate, halfway, mediate,

vein; (v) exploit, burrow; (adj) my,

congress, council, meet, caucus,

central. ANTONYMS: (adj) extreme,

delve

appointment, junction.

outer, late, early; (adj, n) outside; (n)

mingled: (adj) miscellaneous,

ANTONYMS: (n) parting, trough

extremity, perimeter, beginning,

complex, indiscriminate,

melancholy: (adj, v) dreary; (adj, n)

end, circumference, surface

heterogeneous, medley, confused,

gloom, melancholic; (adj) depressed,

midnight: (n) dark, noon, hour

eclectic, motley, different; (v)

dejected, dismal, gloomy, doleful;

might: (n) power, energy, ability,

blended, blent

(n, v) low spirits; (n) gloominess,

influence, strength, puissance,

minute: (n, v) note; (adj) little,

depression. ANTONYMS: (n)

vehemence, intensity; (v) may, can,

delicate, microscopic, small, atomic;

happiness, cheerfulness,

could. ANTONYMS: (n) weakness,

(n) jiffy, flash, moment, second,

hopefulness, optimism; (adj) happy,

feebleness, meekness

memorandum. ANTONYMS: (adj)

bright, cheery, satisfied

mildly: (adv) moderately, placidly,

huge, big, gigantic, significant,

melted: (adj) molten, fluid, liquified,

gently, tenderly, graciously, softly,

cursory, immeasurable, tremendous,

dissolved, liquefied, baked, fluent,

lightly, kindly, calmly, sweetly,

important, colossal, giant, large

touched, limpid, sorry, flowing

suavely. ANTONYMS: (adv)

minutes: (n) record, transactions,

melville: (n) Herman Melville

passionately, intensely, extremely,

records, memorandum, journal,

mendacity: (n) falsehood, falsity,

enormously, pithily, powerfully,

minute, report, proceeding, legal

deception, lie, deceit, falseness,

harshly, severely, considerably

proceeding, judicial proceeding,

fabrication, untruth, untruthfulness;

miles: (adj) far

Hansard

(v) perjury; (adj) untrue.

military: (n) armed forces, force,

mischief: (adj, n) evil, hurt, harm; (n)

ANTONYM: (n) veracity

army, troop, personnel; (adj)

damage, ill, detriment,

mention: (n, v) comment, name,

militant, warlike, soldierly,

disadvantage, devilry, caper,

remark, call, hint; (v) cite, observe,

militaristic, armed, combatant.

devilment, maleficence.

commend; (n) allusion, citation,

ANTONYMS: (adj) unmilitary,

ANTONYMS: (n) obedience,

reference. ANTONYM: (v) conceal

unarmed

beneficence, help

mercy: (n) kindness, compassion,

milk: (v) squeeze, drain, tap, bleed,

mischievous: (adj) bad, injurious,

pity, favor, leniency, pardon,

anodyne, balm; (n) buttermilk,

detrimental, naughty, deleterious,

forgiveness, grace, charity,

colostrum, foremilk; (adj) gluten,

impish, harmful, playful, maleficent,

humanity; (n, v) quarter.

chalk

arch; (adj, v) hurtful. ANTONYMS:

ANTONYMS: (n) cruelty, harshness,

millennium: (n) Happy Valley,

(adj) harmless, serious

unkindness, severity, mercilessness,

chateaux en Espagne, future,

misfit: (n) anthropoid, ape, dork,

ruthlessness, impatience,

century, Atlantis, millenary, remote

birdbrain, loon, eccentric, fish out of

inhumanity

future, period, millennial, thousand

water, loner, anomaly, oddity,

mere: (adj, n) entire; (adj) bare,

years, crack of doom

radical. ANTONYM: (n) conformist

simple, pure; (n) loch, tarn,

millionaire: (n) nabob, millionnaire,

mislaid: (adj) misplaced, absent,

boundary, absolute; (n, v)

wealthy person, rich person,

disordered, gone astray, not there,

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missing, lost temporarily.

transmission

and large. ANTONYM: (adv)

ANTONYM: (adj) found

moist: (adj) damp, wet, muggy,

partially

miss: (v) lose, fail, jump, omit,

clammy, dank, damps, dampish,

mother: (n) mamma, mommy, origin,

overlook, long, forget; (n) maid, girl;

soggy, soppy, wettish, moisture.

mama, ma, mammy, mummy; (n, v)

(adj, v) fault; (n, v) want.

ANTONYMS: (adj) dry, limp, fresh

father; (v) engender, generate, beget

ANTONYMS: (v) perceive, attend,

molestation: (adj, n) annoyance; (n)

motionless: (adj) inactive, inert,

achieve, have, succeed, hit, make,

disturbance, badgering, baiting,

immobile, stationary, fixed,

see, find, take; (n) success

molest, hindrance, affliction,

unmoving, quiescent, dead, torpid;

missing: (adj) absent, wanting, gone,

inconvenience, sexual harassment;

(adj, adv) calm, at rest.

deficient, away, nonexistent,

(adj) infestation, outrage

ANTONYMS: (adj) mobile, active,

misplaced, vanished; (v) lost; (n)

moment: (n, v) consequence, weight;

alive, flowing

omission; (adv) missingly.

(adj, n) instant; (n) flash, jiffy,

motor: (v) drive, ride, travel; (n)

ANTONYMS: (adj) found, real

minute, import, second, time, bit,

automobile, machine, electric motor,

mission: (n) job, delegation,

hour. ANTONYMS: (n)

car, locomotive, conductor, auto;

deputation, goal, legation,

inconsequence, age, triviality

(adj) motive

assignment, duty, charge, chore,

monday: (n) Sunday, Whitmonday

moustache: (adj, n) hair; (n)

errand, task

money: (n) currency, capital, kale,

mustache, mustachio, mastax,

missus: (n) lady, wife, matron,

funds, means, lucre, assets, legal

whiskers; (adj) whisker, mane,

married woman

tender, pelf, cash, dough

brush, tress, ringlet, shag

mistake: (n, v) miss, blunder, err,

monkey: (n) imp, primate, scamp,

mousy: (adj) mousey, shy, mouselike,

slip; (n) failure, error,

rascal, battering ram; (v) tinker,

fearful, silent, dull, gray, sheepish,

misconception, misapprehension,

meddle, tamper, trifle, cuckoo, echo

frightened, dumb, chromatic.

defect, demerit; (v) misapprehend.

monthly: (adj) menstrual, mensal,

ANTONYMS: (adj) bold, brazen

ANTONYMS: (v) appreciate,

periodic; (adv) each month, every

mouth: (n) lip, lips, aperture, edge,

distinguish, interpret

month, month by month; (n)

entrance, snout, entry; (n, v)

mistrust: (adj, n, v) distrust; (n, v)

magazine, periodical, journal, series,

grimace; (v) articulate, pronounce,

doubt, query; (n) suspicion,

review

speak

misgiving, disbelief, apprehension,

moral: (n) lesson, meaning; (adj)

move: (v) excite, go, affect, carry,

wariness; (v) suspect, disbelieve,

good, decent, right, honest, virtuous,

touch, instigate, travel; (n, v) act,

discredit. ANTONYM: (v) believe

proper, chaste, upright, righteous.

drive, transfer, maneuver.

misunderstanding: (n)

ANTONYMS: (adj) bad,

ANTONYMS: (v) stay, restore,

misapprehension, disagreement,

unwholesome, unethical, amoral,

refrain, remain, rest, withdraw, stop,

misconception, misinterpretation,

decadent, wrong, unjust, sinful,

repel, come, leave

error, misconstruction, dispute,

irreverent, dishonorable, degenerate

movement: (n) move, action,

quarrel, mistaking; (n, v) dissension,

moralist: (n) disciplinarian, martinet,

campaign, crusade, activity,

difference. ANTONYMS: (n)

philosopher, utilitarian, stickler,

advancement, cause, passage, drive,

harmony, fact, agreement,

moraliser, egalitarian, dictator,

drift, flow. ANTONYMS: (n)

understanding

authoritarian, elitist

stillness, inertia, motionlessness,

mobbed: (adj) packed, congested

morality: (n) ethics, goodness, virtue,

inactivity, retreat

mock: (adj, v) counterfeit; (n, v)

honesty, decency, integrity,

mulish: (adj) cussed, obstinate,

ridicule, jeer, gibe, laugh at, flout;

righteousness, chastity, behavior,

headstrong, hardheaded, dogged,

(adj, n, v) burlesque, sham; (v)

moral philosophy, rectitude.

tenacious, willful, pigheaded,

mimic, ape, taunt. ANTONYMS:

ANTONYMS: (n) immorality,

wayward, intractable, obdurate.

(adj) real, natural; (v) praise,

decadence, wickedness, indecency

ANTONYMS: (adj) compliant,

applaud, respect, approve

morals: (n) ethics, moral, light,

flexible, amenable

model: (n, v) pattern, copy, fashion,

hedonism, ethical motive,

murderous: (adj) cutthroat,

shape; (n) example, image, figure,

conscience, motivation, motive,

homicidal, gory, bloodthirsty, cruel,

prototype, dummy; (adj, n)

need, behavior, moral philosophy

brutal, fierce, mortal, deadly, lethal,

standard; (v) imitate. ANTONYMS:

morning: (n) dawn, sunrise, morn,

killing. ANTONYM: (adj) easy

(adj) atypical, unconventional,

forenoon, daylight, first light, am,

museum: (n) depository, repository,