#48 , ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 471 TO 480, WORDS STARTING WITH 'M' AND ending with 'm'

ANSWERS TO MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS 471 to 480.

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TEN WORDS STARTING WITH 'M' and ENDING WITH 'm'.
Macrocosm
Maelstrom
Magnetism
Mayhem
Maim
Mainstream
Majoritarianism
Malapropism
Mammogram
Mammonism

471. NSF’s investments in adaptive optics give solar astronomers the sharpest insights yet into the magnetism that drives sunspots.
[Budget of the United States Government, FY 2007NSF ].

472. Materialism and Mammonism work against spiritual religion, and the social customs which wealth brings are adverse to a spiritual life. As one illustration of this a distinguished pastor said to me: "Forty years ago my people lived plainly, were ready for earnest Christian work, and attended our devotional meetings; now they have grown rich, our work flags, and our weekly services are almost deserted." [Theodore Ledyard Cuyler in his 'Recollections of a Long Life'].

473. Mammogram is the best tool for detection of breast cancer in women.

474. Malapropism can be termed as a comical misuse of a word. To prevent it, we cannot cur our own tongues. [ ].

475. The dragons of the air,
The hell-hounds of the deep,
Lurking and prowling everywhere,
Go forth to seek their helpless prey,
Not knowing whom they maim or slay--
Mad harvesters, who care not what they reap[Henry Van Dyke in his poem 'The Red Flower - Lights Out'].

476. The Ohio State Government has a Mainstream Voucher Housing Programme, which issues vouchers to homeless persons to pay rent and live independently..

477. While majority rule is the bedrock principle upon which democracy rests, simple majoritarianism has its own drawbacks. Hence it usually operates within a constitutional framework that limits the power of government and safeguards individual and minority rights. [Matthew Gandal and Chester E. Finn, Jr.].

478. Crown pleas included issues of the King's property, fines due to
him, murder (a body found with no witnesses to a killing), homicide (a killing for which there were witnesses), rape, wounding, mayhem (also maihem), consorting, larceny, robbery, burglary, arson, poaching, unjust imprisonment, selling cloth by non-standard widths, selling wine by non-standard weights. [From : Our Legal Heritage - the first 1000 Years].

479. Human mitochondria can be seen as a genetic microcosm, located within the macrocosm of the entire cell.

480. "The maelstrom! the maelstrom!" Could a more dreadful word in a more dreadful situation have sounded in our ears! We were then upon the dangerous coast of Norway. [Jules Verne in his '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'].