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| a substance given to a sick person to help make them better.
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| medieval
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| coming from the historical period between the 12th and 15th centuries.
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| an average size, not particularly large or small.
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| meet
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| to come face-to-face with another person
| I meet my friend at the bus stop every day.
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| melody
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| a tune
| Do you recognize this melody?
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| shaft
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| a long, vertical passageway.
| A lift shaft.
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| melon
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| a round yellow or green fruit with a tough skin, soft flesh, and many seeds.
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| melt
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| to turn from a solid to a liquid when heated.
| The butter melted quickly in the hot pan.
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| memorial
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| a structure that is built to remind us of people who have died.
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| memorize
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| the ability to remember things.
| I have a terrible memory for people’s names
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| mend
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| to repair something that is broken.
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| mental
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| having to do with the mind.
| A test of mental abilities.
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| menu
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| a list of dishes in a restaurant
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| mercury
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| a heavy, silver-colored metal that is usually in a liquid form.
| Mercury is often used in thermometers.
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| mercy
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| the ability to forgive someone or to treat them sympathetically
| The prisoners were shown mercy and released
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| merit
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| to deserve something
| Her actions merited a special award for bravery.
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| mermaid
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| a sea creature from legends that has the upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish.
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| merry
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| happy and cheerful.
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| mess
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| things that are dirty or in the wrong place and look untidy
| There was a big mess after they had finished cooking
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| message
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| a piece of information or an instruction that you send to someone or leave for them.
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| from the verb to meet
| I met my friend in town yesterday
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| metal
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| a substance that is found in rocks and can be hammered or stretched into a shape. Iron, gold, and copper are all metals. Electricity and heat can be passed through metals.
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| meteorite
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| a piece of rock that falls to Earth from space without burning up. Pieces of rock that burn up as they enter Earth’s atmosphere are called meteors.
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| method
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| a way of doing something.
| Organic farming methods.
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| microphone
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| a device that is used to send sound over a distance or to make it louder.
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| microscope
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| an instrument that magnifies very tiny things so that they can be seen in detail.
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| microwave oven
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| an oven that cooks food very quickly by passing electrical signals through it.
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| midday
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| 12 o’clock, in the middle of the day.
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| middle
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| the center, or the part between the outer edges of something.
| She sat in the middle of the bench, between her two friends.
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| midnight
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| 12 o’clock at night.
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