Vocabulary Words - Seventh Grade - M:

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• maintain
  (v.) Keep in a certain state.
  
  
• maintenance
  (n.) The work needed to keep something in good condition.
  
  
• marrow
  (n.) Bone marrow, the soft tissue that fills the inside of bones.
  
  
• marsupial
  (n.) Mammals in which the females have a pouch where the young are fed and carried.
  
  
• mason
  (n.) A person who builds with stone or brick.
  
  
• mate
  (n.) One of two matched objects.
  (n.) The partner of an animal.
  (n.) A friend.
  (v.) To put animals together for breeding.
  
  
• material
  (n.) The paper, rock, glass, plastic, or other substances that you can use to make things.
  
  
• mature
  (adj.) Behaving as an adult or responsible person would.
  (v.) To grow up, develop.
  
  
• medicine
  (n.) Pills or liquid that you use to treat an illness.
  (n.) The practice or study of treating diseases.
  
  
• Memorial
  (n.) Something created to remember someone who has died.
  (adj.) Having to do with something done to remember someone who has died.
  
  
• memorize
  (v.) To learn words or music so that you can remember it.
  
  
• merchandise
  (n.) Products that you sell.
  
  
• microorganism
  (n.) A very small organism.
  
  
• microscope
  (n.) An instrument with a lens used to see small objects.
  (n.) A device with a lens that you use to see small objects.
  
  
• midlife
  (adj.) Taking place at the halfway point of a person's life.
  
  
• milliseconds
  (n.) Plural of millisecond; one one-thousandth of a second.
  
  
• mince
  (v.) To cut food into pieces.
  (v.) To say exactly what one thinks.
  
  
• minor
  (adj.) Not important or serious.
  (n.) A person who has not yet reached the legal age of adulthood.
  (v.) To study a secondary subject in college.
  
  
• missionary
  (n.) Someone who has been sent to a foreign place to teach people about their religion.
  
  
• moderation
  (n.) Not done to excess (too much).
  
  
• momentary
  (adj.) Taking place during a short period of time.
  
  
• monsoon
  (n.) A heavy rainstorm during the wet season around the Indian Ocean and southern Asia.
  
  
• motivate
  (v.) To encourage someone and make him or her want to work hard for something.
  
  
• motivation
  (n.) A willingness to do something without being forced to do it.
  
  
• musician
  (n.) Someone who writes or performs music for a living.
  
  

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