

- MY, ME,
- MOM – mother is like water, nurturing her children
- MAN –
mal (bad, evil) : L – ox goad or cattle prod
- malice (n.), malfeasance, maleficent, maladaptive, maladjusted, malcontent, malediction, malefaction, malefactor, malformation, maladroit, malapropism
- malevolent, malign (adj.), malignant,
- malaise, malady, malaria,
- malinger (feign illness)
- dismal
machin (plan, trick, artifice) : C – tools
- machination, machinate
macro- (large, long): O – eyes
macrocosm (cosmos = universe), macroscopic, macrobiotic
maestro, postmaster
mag (M – water, contain + A – ox + G – tools):
- magistrate, magnate 有工具G,又自控压缩自我N的男人, magnanimous 伟大而又谦虚如水的人, magnanimity, magniloquence, magnum
man (hand):
- manual, amanuensis, emancipate, manacle, legerdemain, manifest, maneuver, manure, manumit (mit – send), mannerism
man (stay, remain): N – overlay, compact, tooth
- remnant, remain, immanent (inherent), impermanence,
mand (order): D – door, boundary
- demand, mandate, countermand, command, remand,
mania (ia-disease)
- mania, egomania, pyromaniac (P-mouth+Y – fire + R +O) , kleptomania, megalomania,
matr (mother) T – mark
- matrix, matriarch, matricide, matrimony, matron, matriculate
- mature = -ure (shows actions or results)
max
maxim
med D-door (middle, in the middle, in half)
Mediterranean, medium, media, mediate, intermediate, mediocre, immediate, median, medial, medieval,
meddle, medley
moiety, milieu,
mel (better, cheering/praying)
meliorate, ameliorate, melody, melodramatic,
men (N – compact, overlay)
- mend, amend, emend,
- immense
merc (money, trade)
mercenary, merciless, mercurial, mercury
merg, mers (plunge) R – head
- merger, immerse
merit (earned, gained, deserved) T – mark
- emeritus, meretricious, meritorious,
metr (measure) – meter —
meter, metric, metronome, odometer, pedometer
metro, metropolis, metropolitan
me (pass, proceed) water extends
- permeate = per + me + ate
micro-
microcosm, microbe, microfiche,
migr (move) 一个人带着自己的工具,渡水,到达另一个地方冒出头来
emigrate, immigrate, migrate, transmigrate
min 时空的扁平,收缩,变小,瞬间; 流水变成一个点,然后又压缩
- minute, imminent, eminent, preeminent, prominent,
- diminution, minutiae (pl.), minutia, minuscule, minuet,
- reminiscent, 回忆的点点滴滴 wistful
misc (mix)
- miscellany, admix, miscible, promiscuous
miser (wretched)
misery, commiserate, commissariat
mis, mit (send) miss (sent):
premise, demise (death, end), surmise, compromise, promise
commit, admit, emit, remit (remittance, remission), permit, omit, manumit (set free), intermit (intermittent rain)
mob, mobster
mod 如水般流动的东西被限制在门(界限)里
mode, model, modal, modify, modicum, moderate, modesty, modern,
mol
- immolate, immolation, emolument (stipend),
- molar,
mono- (one, single) 清心寡欲
monogram, monolith (monument), monochrome, monastic
mon
- monster, monstrosity, remonstrate
- summon, monitor, monument, admonish, premonition (foreboding, hunch, six sense)
-monious (of or resembling)
acrimonious, parsimonious, sanctimonious,
mort (death)
- mortify – mortification1. cause (someone) to feel embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated.
“she was mortified to see her wrinkles in the mirror”
2. subdue (the body or its needs and desires) by self-denial or discipline.“return to heaven by mortifying the flesh“3. (of flesh) be affected by gangrene or necrosis.“the cut in Henry’s arm had mortified” - mortal, mortality, mortally, mortician
- mortuary: a funeral home or morgue.
- moribund(of a person) at the point of death.“on examination she was moribund and dehydrated”
- immortalizeconfer enduring fame upon.“he will be forever immortalized in the history books”
- mortgage, amortize
mot (move)
- motifa theme; a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition.“the nautical motif of his latest novel”
- motel, motile, motility, motion, motive, motor
- emote, emotion, demote, promote, commotion, locomotion
- leitmotifa recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.“there are two leitmotifs in his score marking the heroine and her Fairy Godmother”
multi (many)
multitude, multitudinous, multifarious,
mun
muni, mune – money
- immune, munificent, remunerate 支付薪水
mur (delay, stay behind, wall) (R – head)
murmur, demur (raise doubt, take issue), demure (reserved, modest, shy), moratorium (on); amortization
mural, immure (incarcerate, imprison, put behind bars),
mutter, mumble,
mut (change, alter) wanter flows then bumps into a barrier/mark
mutate, mutable, transmute, commute, permute, mutual, mutation, mutant,
mute,
- mind, spirit
- to think, to believe
- mind, understanding, reason,
- memory, remembrance; conscious mind, intellect
- one who divines, prophet, seer
automatic, automaton
comment, commentate, demonstrate, remonstrate,
mind, mien, mental, memento, mention, mentor, monument, mosaic, museum, reminiscence, reminiscent, commemorate, memoir,demented,
mnemonic, ament, amentia, amnesia, anamnesis, anamnestic
dement, dementia,
mania, manic, mantic, balletomane
admonish, premonition,
amnesty
compos mentis: in command one’s mind
mantis, mantra
monitor, muster, summon, menace, amenable, mendacious, mendicant,
- to project
- mountain
menace, minacious, amenable,
mount, amount, dismount, demeanor, mountain, altramontane, surmount, remount
eminent, prominence, prominent, imminence, imminent, promenade,
- to remain, to stay, to abide
- small, isolated
malmsey, manometer, monad, monism, monist,
monarchy, monastery, monk,
monochrome, monocle, monocular, monogamy, monogram, monolith, monologue, monomania, monopoly, monosyllable, monotony