MIRAGE

MIRAGE:

■ noun

An optical phenomenon that creates the illusion of water, often with inverted reflections of distant objects, and results from distortion of light by alternate layers of hot and cool air.

Something illusory or insubstantial.

eg. As they were driving, they saw a mirage that looked like water on the road ahead.

MISERLY

MISERLY:
■ Adj.
Greedy, stingy;Relating to one who stores riches selfishly.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser; avaricious or penurious.

eg.The mayor had a reputation for being miserly with the city's money.

MISOGAMY

MISOGAMY:
■ noun
Hatred of marriage.

eg. Misogamy drives the plot. Marriage itself is seen as a series of ratty exchanges in which partners gnaw at past infidelities.

TORTUOUS

TORTUOUS: 
■Adj. 
Marked by repeated turns and bends; Not straightforward. 

eg.In a tortuous journey across to Lesotho, he reaches the final crossing, the river gorge which forms the frontier. 

MAELSTROM

 MAELSTROM:

 ■ noun 
A whirlpool of extraordinary size or violence.
A violent or turbulent situation.



eg.The swirling hype, promises of opportunity and mandates for change have created a maelstrom of uncertainty.

MALEDICTION

MALEDICTION:

 ■ noun

The act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)

eg. A malediction was pronounced against the town and ever since there has been no fresh water there.

MELEE

MELEE: 

 ■ noun
 Confused, hand-to-hand fighting.

eg.A melee broke out in front of the theater before the controversial film started.

MERCENARY

MERCENARY :

 ■ Adj.
 Motivated solely by a desire for monetary or material gain;Hired for service in a foreign army.

■ noun
One who serves or works merely for monetary gain; a hireling;A professional soldier hired for service in a foreign army.

eg. It seems very mercenary to charge your guests for their dinner and drinks.

METTLE

 METTLE:

■ noun

Courage and fortitude; spirit

eg.It takes a lot of mettle to run in the Boston Marathon.

MIASMA

MIASMA:

 ■ noun
A poisonous atmosphere formerly thought to rise from swamps and putrid matter and cause disease.A thick vaporous atmosphere or emanation.
A noxious atmosphere or influence .

eg.One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair.

MISCREANT

MISCREANT:

■ noun

An evildoer; a villain;an infidel; a heretic.

eg. The miscreant was hauled before the judge to be sentenced for the crime.

MISSILE

MISSILE:

  ■ noun
An object or weapon that is fired, thrown, dropped, or otherwise projected at a target; a projectile.

eg.If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

TACIT

TACIT:

■Adj. 

Implied by or inferred from actions or statements;Not spoken.

eg.Management has given its tacit approval to the plan.

TAINT

TAINT:

■ noun

The state of being contaminated.

■ Verb
To contaminate the reputation;To become or cause to become rotten;To make morally impure.


 eg.The cork industry have done a huge amount of work to find the causes of cork taint.

TILLER

TILLER:

■ noun
1.A horizontal bar fitted to the head of a boat's rudder post and used for steering.

2.One that tills land.
3.Shoot, especially one that sprouts from the base of a grass.


eg. Firstly, you can have a tiller installed in the place of the wheel.

TRAPPINGS

TRAPPINGS :

■ noun

Articles of dress or adornment, especially accessories.

Also,Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse

 eg.The trappings of upper-class life are off-putting and sterile.

TYCOON

TYCOON: 

■ noun

 A wealthy and powerful businessperson or industrialist; a magnate.Used formerly as a title for a Japanese shogun.

eg.The real estate tycoon was never seen without his expensive car.

TUMULT

TUMULT:

 ■ noun
A disorderly commotion or disturbance
A tempestuous uprising; a riot. Agitation of the mind or emotions.

eg.The men in the siege engine leaped out into the city, and a great tumult arose in the city.

TURBID

TURBID:

■ Adj.

Having sediment or foreign particles stirred up or suspended; muddy.

eg.In the UK, waters are often turbid and so obtaining a broad scale photograph is almost impossible.

JABBER

JABBER:

■ Verb

To talk rapidly, unintelligibly, or idly.

eg.How can someone jabber on for so many years and not really say anything?

JAUNT

JAUNT:

■ noun

 A short trip or excursion, usually for pleasure; an outing.

eg.We take many summer jaunts to the shore.

JETTISON

JETTISON:

■ Verb

To cast overboard or throw overboard;To discard (something) as unwanted or burdensome.

eg.Before landing on an aircraft carrier, planes jettison any remaining fuel.

JOCOSE

JOCOSE:

■Adj.
Given to joking; merry.Characterized by joking; humorous.

 eg.The jocose man soon had the guests laughing.

JUBILATION

JUBILATION: 

■noun

The act of rejoicing.A celebration or other expression of joy.

eg.My emotions went from depression to sheer jubilation within 5 minutes.  

JOSTLE

JOSTLE:

■Verb

To come into rough contact with while moving;To force by pushing or elbowing.A rough shove or push.

eg. As soon as the train stopped the crowd jostled its way through the doors.

ELYSIAN

ELYSIAN:

■ Adj.
Excellent, beautiful ,creative,blissful; delightful;like paradise.

eg.At the party we had an elysian meal.

JOLLITY

JOLLITY:

■noun
Convivial merriment or celebration.A state of joyful exuberance.

eg.There will be lots of food and drink and general jollity.

JIBE

 JIBE:

 ■ Verb

To agree; to harmonize.

Also,

Shift from one side of the ship to the other

eg. The group, after a few half-hearted jibes at Brown's expense reformed their ranks and resumed their homeward journey.

JEOPARDIZE

 JEOPARDIZE:

 ■ Verb

Pose a threat to; present a danger to 

Put at risk.

eg.I will jeopardize my good reputation for this.

 

JARGON

 JARGON:

 ■ noun

Special language of a particular work or group.

A hybrid language or dialect.

eg.The jargon of the computer programmers left him totally baffled as to what they were talking about.

 

TUXEDO

 TUXEDO:

■ noun

A man's dress jacket, usually black with satin or grosgrain lapels, worn for formal or semi formal occasions.

eg. The high school student wore a tuxedo to the prom.

 

TUNDRA

TUNDRA:

 ■ noun
A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation such as lichens, mosses, and stunted shrubs.

eg.Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath.

TYRO

TYRO: 

■ noun 

A beginner in learning something.Someone new to a field or activity.

eg. He was a sensitive, fine soul alert to the pleasures of being green, a tyro, an amateur, unwilling to close his mind before it had been tempted.

TREK

TREK:

■ noun  

A journey especially an organized migration by a group of settlers.Any long and difficult trip.

■ Verb   

Journey on foot, especially in the mountains.

eg. They trekked towards the North Pole with sleds and skis.

TRANSMUTE

TRANSMUTE:

 ■ Verb

To change from one form, nature, substance, or state into another; transform.

eg.Alchemists tried to transmute lead into gold.

TARANTULA

TARANTULA: 

 ■ noun

Large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites.

 eg.In the wild, pink Chilean tarantulas kill prey such as toads, frogs and mice painlessly. 

TACTILE

TACTILE:

 ■Adj. 

Perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible;
Of, relating to, or proceeding from the sense of touch.

eg.Like Tantrix, it was invented in New Zealand and uses wonderfully tactile Bakelite tiles.

MISSIVE

MISSIVE:

■ noun
A written message; a letter.


eg.It is Christmas Eve and I am in my study writing this final missive before starting Christmas with my family.

MISOGYNIST

 MISOGYNIST:

 ■ noun
One who hates women.

eg. Martha's husband is a misogynist who abuses her every chance he gets.

 

MIGRANT

MIGRANT:

■ noun

One that moves from one region to another by chance, instinct, or plan.

An itinerant worker who travels from one area to another in search of work.

eg.I am talking here of skilled economic migrants who can afford expensive housing.

 

MESMERIZE

  MESMERIZE:

  ■ Verb
 To spellbind; enthrall;To hypnotize.


 eg.The magician was able to mesmerize the young audience with the intricate magic tricks.

MERGER

MERGER: 

■ noun 

The union of two or more commercial interests or corporations.

The absorption of a lesser estate, liability, right, action, or offense into a greater one.

eg.The overriding problem with transatlantic mergers is the difference in profitability and the way partners are remunerated.

 

MENTOR

MENTOR:

 ■ noun
 An older, trusted, more experienced advisor or counselor who offers helpful guidance to younger, less experienced colleagues.

■ Verb

Serve as a teacher or trusted counsellor.

eg.The famous professor mentored him during his years in graduate school.

MALADY

MALADY:

 ■ noun

Illness; Any physical disease or disorder.

Any unwholesome or desperate condition.

eg.What maladies afflict our nation?

MAGNANIMITY

MAGNANIMITY:

 ■ noun

Extremely liberal and generous of spirit;

Liberality in bestowing gifts.

eg.His enemies he treated with the greatest magnanimity; no bloody executions followed the victory of the Milvian Bridge.

MNEMONIC

 MNEMONIC:

■ noun

A device, such as a formula or rhyme, used as an aid in remembering.

■ Adj.

Relating to, assisting, or intended to assist the memory.

  

eg. The students learned the mnemonic, Never Eat Soggy Waffles, in order to remember the order of the directions on a compass.

 

MISHAP

 MISHAP:

 ■ noun. 

 An unfortunate accident;Bad luck.

eg.The adventurers had one mishap after another but they arrived at their destination intact.

 

MIRTH

MIRTH: 

■ noun

Gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter.Joyfulness with laughter.

eg.Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.

MENDACIOUS

MENDACIOUS:

■ Adj.
Telling lies, especially as a habit;Untruthful.

 eg.The child was known to be mendacious and so could not be trusted.