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6001 - 7000 Vocabulary List for Visiting Scholars in the USA - Page 60 |
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| Word | Type | Used in a Sentence | Synonym |
| muffle | verb | The sand muffled the hoofbeats of the horses. | deaden sound |
| mumble | verb | I could not understand him when he mumbled. | speak indistinctly |
| musket | noun | The soldiers raised their muskets and fired. | smoothbore shoulder gun |
| mustard | noun | We like mustard on our hotdogs. | yellow pungent condiment |
| muster | verb | They mustered the troops quickly. | summoned, gathered |
| noun | It was a muster of all the leaders. | a gathering | |
| muzzle | noun | The dog had a muzzle to protect the children. | a restraint on the jaws |
| verb | They wanted to muzzle the opposition. | restrain from expression | |
| myriad | adj. | They talked about the myriad of fish in the ocean. | a very large indefinite number |
| myth | noun | That is just a myth that he could fly. | fictitious story |