Quizlet Honers english 10's 100 words finall for M-P

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  1. magnanimous: Courageously noble in mind and heart
  2. meretricious: Attracting attention in a vulgar manner;gaudy
  3. metamorphosis: A transformation, as by magic or sorcery
  4. milieu: An environment or a setting.
  5. moiety: A half. A part, portion, or share.
  6. nemesis: A source of harm or ruin;An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome
  7. nomenclature: A system of names used in an art or science
  8. nonsectarian: Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
  9. obdurate: Hardened against feeling; Not giving in to persuasion; intractable. inflexible
  10. obsequious: Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning
  11. obstreperous: Noisily and stubbornly defiant. Aggressively boisterous
  12. obtuse: Lacking quickness of perception or intellect; blunt
  13. oleaginous: Of or relating to oil
  14. oligarchy: A state governed by a few persons
  15. onerous: Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome. burdensome
  16. ostensible: Represented or appearing as such
  17. palliate: Ease woth out curing
  18. paradigm: Model;example of patern
  19. parse: analyze grammatically
  20. parsimony: extreme frugality
  21. peccant: Violating rule of accepted practice; sinfull
  22. peculate: to embezzle
  23. pecuniary: relating to money
  24. pedestrian: ordinary
  25. pejorative: having a degrading effect
  26. penumbra: partial shadow or eclipse
  27. pilloried: woden framework on a post
  28. prescient: foresight
  29. preternatural: exceeding what is natural
  30. prevaricate: deviate from the truth
  31. promulgate: put into effect by anouncing
  32. propinquity: nearness
  33. prosaic: dull
  34. punctilious: precise accordance with conventions