Glossary of 1,500 Common English Words
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machine | ||
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a device with moving parts used to do work | ||
magazine | ||
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a publication of news, stories, pictures or other information | ||
magnet | ||
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a piece of iron or other material that has a pulling force; this pulling force is called magnetism | ||
letters, papers and other things sent through an official system, such as a post office | ||
main | ||
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the most important or largest | ||
major | ||
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great in size, importance or amount | ||
majority | ||
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the greater number; more than half | ||
make | ||
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to produce; to create; to build; to do something or to carry out an action; to cause to be or to become | ||
male | ||
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a man or boy; the sex that is the father of children; ad. of or about men | ||
man | ||
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an adult male human | ||
manufacture | ||
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to make goods in large amounts | ||
many | ||
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a large number or amount of | ||
map | ||
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a picture of the earth's surface or a part of it | ||
march | ||
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to walk in a group like soldiers; to walk together in a large group to protest about something | ||
mark | ||
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to make a sign or cut on something | ||
marry | ||
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to join a man and woman together as husband and wife; to become husband and wife (usually in a religious or civil ceremony) | ||
mass | ||
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an amount of matter having no special form and usually of a large size | ||
mate | ||
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to bring together a male and a female to create another creature | ||
material | ||
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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 | ||
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the science dealing with amounts, sizes and shapes, as explained by numbers and signs | ||
matter | ||
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anything that can be seen or felt; what things are made of | ||
may | ||
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a word used with an action word to mean permit or possible ("May I go?" "They may leave tomorrow.") | ||
mayor | ||
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the chief official of a city or town government | ||
meal | ||
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food eaten to satisfy hunger, such as dinner | ||
mean | ||
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to want to; to give the idea of; to have the idea of | ||
measure | ||
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to learn the amount, size or distance of something; n. an action taken; a legislative proposal | ||
meat | ||
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the part of a dead animal used for food | ||
media | ||
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all public information organizations, including newspapers, television and radio | ||
medicine | ||
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a substance or drug used to treat disease or pain; the science or study of treating and curing disease or improving health | ||
meet | ||
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to come together with someone or something at the same time and place | ||
melt | ||
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to make a solid into a liquid by heating it | ||
member | ||
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one of a group | ||
memorial | ||
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something done or made to honor the memory of a person or event | ||
memory | ||
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a picture in the mind of past events; the ability to remember; a thing remembered | ||
mental | ||
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about or having to do with the mind | ||
mercy | ||
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kindness toward those who should be punished; the power to be kind or to pardon | ||
message | ||
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written or spoken news or information; a note from one person to another person or group | ||
metal | ||
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a hard substance such as iron, steel or gold | ||
method | ||
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the way something is done | ||
microscope | ||
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a device used to make very small things look larger so they can be studied | ||
middle | ||
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the center; a place or time of equal distance from both sides or ends; ad. in the center | ||
militant | ||
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someone active in trying to cause political change, often by the use of force or violence | ||
military | ||
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the armed forces of a nation or group; ad. of or about the armed forces | ||
milk | ||
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the white liquid produced by female animals to feed their young | ||
mind | ||
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the thinking, feeling part of a person | ||
mine | ||
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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 | ||
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a substance found in nature that is not an animal or a plant, such as coal or salt | ||
minister | ||
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a member of a cabinet; a high government official ("prime minister,"foreign minister") | ||
minor | ||
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small in size; of little importance | ||
minority | ||
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the smaller number; opposite majority | ||
minute | ||
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a measure of time; one of the sixty equal parts of an hour; sixty seconds | ||
miss | ||
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to fail to hit, see, reach or meet | ||
missile | ||
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any weapon that can be thrown or fired through the air and explodes when it reaches its target | ||
missing | ||
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lost; not found | ||
mistake | ||
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a wrong action or decision; an action done without the knowledge that it was wrong | ||
mix | ||
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to put different things together to make one thing | ||
mob | ||
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a large group of wild or angry people | ||
model | ||
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an example; something, usually small, made to show how something will look or work | ||
moderate | ||
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not extreme | ||
modern | ||
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of the present or very recent time; the most improved | ||
molecule | ||
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the smallest amount of a chemical substance that can exist | ||
money | ||
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pieces of metal or paper used to pay for things | ||
month | ||
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one of the twelve periods of time into which a year is divided | ||
moon | ||
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the bright object often seen in the night sky that orbits the earth about every twenty-nine days | ||
moral | ||
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concerning what is right or wrong in someone's actions | ||
more | ||
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greater in size or amount | ||
morning | ||
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the early part of the day, from sunrise until noon | ||
most | ||
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greatest in size or amount | ||
mother | ||
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the female parent; a woman who has a child or children | ||
motion | ||
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a movement; a continuing change of position or place | ||
mountain | ||
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a part of the earth's surface that rises high above the area around it | ||
mourn | ||
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to express or feel sadness | ||
move | ||
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to change position; to put or keep in motion; to go | ||
movement | ||
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the act of moving or a way of moving; a series of acts or efforts to reach a goal | ||
movie | ||
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a motion picture; a film | ||
much | ||
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great in amount | ||
murder | ||
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to kill another person illegally; n. the crime of killing another person | ||
music | ||
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the making of sounds by singing or using a musical instrument | ||
must | ||
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a word used with an action word to mean necessary ("You must go to school.") | ||
mystery | ||
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something that is not or cannot be explained or understood; a secret | ||