GRE常考形容词(十)
lunar :: pertaining to the moon lurid :: wild; sensational luscious :: pleasing to taste or smell lustrous :: shining luxuriant :: fertile; abundant; ornate macabre :: gruesome; grisly Machiavellian :: crafty; double-dealing magnanimous :: generous magniloquent :: boastful; pompous malevolent :: wishing evil malicious :: dictated by hatred or spite malignant :: having an evil influence; virulent malleable :: capable of being shaped by pounding mammoth :: gigantic mandatory :: obligatory maniacal :: raving mad manifest :: understandable; clear marital :: pertaining to marriage maritime :: bordering on the sea; nautical martial :: warlike maternal :: motherly maudlin :: effusively sentimental mauve :: pale purple meddlesome :: interfering mediocre :: ordinary; commonplace mellifluous :: flowing smoothly; smooth mendacious :: lying; false menial :: suitable for servants; low mercantile :: concerning trade mercenary :: interested in money or gain mercurial :: fickle; changing meretricious :: flashy; tawdry metallurgical :: pertaining to the art of removing metals from ores metaphysical :: pertaining to speculative philosophy meticulous :: excessively careful migrant :: changing its habitat; wandering migratory :: wandering mincing :: affectedly dainty mobile :: movable; not fixed modish :: fashionable molten :: melted momentous :: very important monetary :: pertaining to money monotheism :: belief in one God moot :: debatable morbid :: given to unwholesome thought; gloomy mordant :: biting; sarcastic; stinging moribund :: at the point of death morose :: ill-humored; sullen motley :: parti-colored; mixed muggy :: warm and damp multiform :: having many forms multilingual :: having many languages mundane :: worldly as opposed to spiritual munificent :: very generous musky :: having the odor of musk musty :: stale; spoiled by age mutable :: changing in form; fickle mutinous :: unruly; rebellious natal :: pertaining to birth nebulous :: cloudy; hazy nefarious :: very wicked niggardly :: meanly stingy; parsimonious nocturnal :: done at night noisome :: foul smelling; unwholesome nomadic :: wandering noncommittal :: neutral; unpledged; undecided |