| A | B |
|---|
| mal | bad |
| maladroit | not adroit;not skillful;awkward;clumsy |
| malady | a bad condition; a disease |
| malaise | a vague feeling of illness or depression |
| malapropism | badly appropriate;not appropriate; a ludicrous misuse of a word that sounds somewhat like the word intended |
| malaria | a disease once thought to be caused by bad air from the swamps |
| malcontent | one who is badly contented; a discontented or rebellious person |
| malediction | a curse |
| malevolent | wishing evil toward others |
| malfeasance | wrongdoing, especially by a public official |
| malice | active bad feeling or ill will |
| malicious | intentionally bad or harmful |
| malign | to speak evil of;to slander |
| malignant | bad or harmful; likely to cause death |
| malinger | to pretend to be in bad health to get out of work |
| barometer | an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure and hence for assisting in predicting probable wheather changes |
| geometery | originally, the system of measuring distances on earth through the use of angles; now, a branch of mathematics that deals w/ points, lines, planes, and solids |
| kilometer | 1,000 meters; approx. 0.62 mile. |
| metric | a decimal system of weights and measures based on the meter as a unit length and the kilogram |
| tachometer | an instrument used to measure the speed of a revolving shaft in revolutions |
| metronome | a clocklike instrument for measuring the distance traveled by a vehicle |
| pedometer | an instrument that measures the distance walked by the number of steps taken |
| parameter | a fixed limit or boundary |
| perimeter | the boundary around an area |
| symmetrical | measured together; having both sides exactly alike |
| trigonometry | the branch of mathematics that deals with the relations between the sides and angles of triangles and the calculations based on these |
