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malicious

Short Definition : hateful; spiteful; expressing malice; N. malice: desire to harm others; spite

Definition
(adj) having the nature of or resulting from malice
Example Sentence
  • malicious gossip
  • took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for malicious

Malaysians(sounds similar) cannot be malicious, the buddhism in the country says never harm others

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mal(bad)+us...we always hate someone who thinks bad for us

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malign

Short Definition : speak evil of; bad-mouth(criticize spitefully); defame; ADJ: harmful; Ex. malign influence

Definition
(verb) speak unfavorably about
Example Sentence
  • She badmouths her husband everywhere
Definition
(adj) evil or harmful in nature or influence
Example Sentence
  • prompted by malign motives
  • believed in witches and malign spirits
  • gave him a malign look
  • a malign lesion
Definition
(adj) having or exerting a malignant influence
Synonyms : evil malefic malevolent
Example Sentence
  • malevolent stars
  • a malefic force
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for malign

Ma(bad) Lign(language) bad language

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sounds like MELLA(dirty) ...so to speak dirty/evil about others

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MR. MALIGAN IS A PERSON WITH BAD MOUTH

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mal=bad, ling=related to language (lingual)...so, malign=use of bad language Also, it's opposite of BENIGN

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similar to malingerer(one who avoids works on excuse of illness) ...if u call someone a malingerer u bring disgrace to his name.

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Hindi - Jisaki pratima malin ki gayee hai by using slanderous remarks

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maa ka land ... is a bad foul language

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Malli(dirty)+ Liguist ---> Malign

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malignant

Short Definition : tending to cause death; highly injurious; aggressively malevolent; Ex. malignant tumor

Definition
(adj) dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for malignant

When Malign( gandi) +ant (ant) ne mujhe kaata ,it was DANGEROUS TO HEALTH.

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malignant....malicious.

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MALINAGA-CRICKTER IS A AGGRESIVE BOWLER.HE CAN CAUSE U SOME SERIOUS INJURY.HOPE IT HELPS U.

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MAL(bad)+AIL+ANT...bad ant that ails you is malignant means infectious and you get infetions on your body after ant bites you

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maa ka ligament kharab ho gaha ... cancer ho gaya ... about to die

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malignant cancer...it spreads throughout the body...hence it has evil influence

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Mali(gardener) g ke liye NAN(a kind of chapati) injurious hai

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malingerer

Short Definition : one who feigns illness to escape duty; V. malinger: feign illness to avoid work

Definition
(noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity
Synonyms : shammer skulker
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Ma linger= child lingering around her mom to avoid going to school.

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Malinga feigned illness to avoid bowling to Tendulkar

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mali+inger(sounds like injure)(p.s MY MALI IS INDER :)))))),.......my mali got injured yesterday while working... so today he is feigning illness and refused to come

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'linger' is to hang around, 'malinger' is to skulk and hang around, and 'malingerer' is one who skulks and hangs around.

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Players like M.Vijay would rather fake illness than face players like MALINGA

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this-tent. This is my tent. It swelled because of the hot steam from the cook inside

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linger is to hang around, lingerer is someone that hangs around, malingerer is someone that doesn't like to hang around at work

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mal ( disease ) + loiter (wander aimlessly) ... that is you are running away from your duty

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malleable

Short Definition : (of a metal) capable of being shaped by pounding(beating); pliable; (of someone) impressionable(easily influenced); easily controlled; tractable

Definition
(adj) easily influenced
Synonyms : ductile
Definition
(adj) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
Example Sentence
  • ductile copper
  • malleable metals such as gold
  • they soaked the leather to made it pliable
  • pliant molten glass
  • made of highly tensile steel alloy
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for malleable

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relate with meltable; so possible to reshape

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Many women believe they can mold their MALE (malle) partners into ABLE-bodied husbands.

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malleability is the capability of stretching to a wire Ductility is the capability of pressing to a sheet. Both are properties studied in material science

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Malleable: Malle(Male=Boys)+Able(capable),so Males only able/capable to build their body(shape) to 6Pack or 8Pack by doing exercise.So MalleAble=capable of being shaped

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Sounds like mouldable Easy to shape or bend

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mallet is a hammer, we use a hammer to hit sth into another shape -> they are malleable

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BIg malls are impressing malleable minds of children .

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malodorous

Short Definition : foul-smelling

Definition
(adj) having an unpleasant smell
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mal(means bad)+odor(sounds simillar to odour)..+us.......smelling..bad odour of some chemicals is dangerous to health.

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mammal

Short Definition : vertebrate animal whose female suckles its young

Definition
(noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk
Synonyms : mammalian

mammoth

Short Definition : gigantic; enormous

Definition
(noun) any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks Definition
(adj) so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth
Synonyms : gigantic
Example Sentence
  • a gigantic redwood
  • gigantic disappointment
  • a mammoth ship
  • a mammoth multinational corporation
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for mammoth

: mam+moth—mam(madam) mouth(moth) was so HUGE she just keep on shouting

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sounds like behemoth,which is also means huge, gigantic

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Mammoth elephant if u remember the history its wild elephant with long teeths

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mammoth,sounds like 'my mouth',and it's huge,:0

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manacle

Short Definition : restrain; handcuff; N.

Definition
(noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs
Synonyms : cuff handcuff handlock
Definition
(verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs
Synonyms : cuff handcuff
Example Sentence
  • The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for manacle

manacle sounds like ankle or shackle , so my ankle got trapped therefore restrained from doing something.

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sounds like my uncle.. he was a prisoner, who was manacled (handcuffed)

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man + nacle = a man was selling nacle(fake) goods. so police has given him the CUFF.

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manacle as noun mean Hathkadi(police walli) ... so hathkadi pahne ke baad i am restrain frm doing anything

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MANACLE = MANO+SHACKLE. MANACLES are SHACKLES for your hands(MANOS in Spanish).

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man(=hand) + obstACLE = manacle, so..we are restrained if our hands are not free...

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Manicure- ladies have it to keep their hands beautiful. Manacle is to tie the hands together.

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mandate

Short Definition : order; charge; authoritative command; power to govern another country; power to given to a government; region under administration; V: give a mandate to; place under a mandate; Ex. mandated territory

Definition
(noun) a document giving an official instruction or command Definition
(noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves
Synonyms : mandatory
Definition
(noun) the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory Definition
(verb) assign under a mandate
Example Sentence
  • mandate a colony
Definition
(verb) make mandatory
Example Sentence
  • the new director of the school board mandated regular tests
Definition
(verb) assign authority to
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for mandate

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man+date a man orders you to go on a date with him

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man+date man(boss) orders you to finish your work on date.

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