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Maintain: 1. Keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean" 2. Keep in perfect or unaltered condition

Maintenance: 1. Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order 2. Means of maintenance of a family or group 3. The act of sustaining

Manage: 1. Be successful; achieve a goal 2. Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of 3. Come to terms or deal successfully with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas." 4. Watch and direct 5. Achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods

Manifest: 1. Clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses 2. Provide evidence for; stand as proof of

Manifestation: 1. A clear appearance 2. A manifest indication 3. Expression without words

Manipulating: 1. Influence or control shrewdly or deviously 2. Hold something in one's hands and move it 3. Fake or falsify 4. Influence skillfully to one's advantage

Mannerisms: 1. An behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual 2. A deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

Maturity: 1. The period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed 2. State of being mature; full development 3. The date on which a financial obligation must be repaid

Meaningless: 1. Having no meaning or direction or purpose

Meditate: 1. Think about at length and in depth 2. Think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes

Meditation: 1. A calm lengthy intent consideration 2. Allows us to develop spiritually in our own way (Basic Text Pg.44) 3. Is listening for God’s answer (Basic Text Pg.45) 4. The times we listen for a higher power’s answer. (It Works How & Why Pg.109) 5. Its usual goal is to quiet the mind so the we can gain understanding and knowledge from our Higher Power (Step Working Guides Pg.110)

Meetings: 1. A process of identification, hope and sharing; A meeting happens when two or more addicts gather to help each other stay clean (Basic Text Pg.11) 2. Provide a place to be with other addicts Basic Text Pg.12)

Melodrama: 1. An extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization

Member: 1. One of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participates in a group organization)

Mental: 1. Involving an intellectual process 2. Affected by a disorder of the mind

Milestone: 1. Stone post at side of a road to show distances 2. A significant event in your life (or in a project)

Minded: 1. An opinion formed by judging something 2. Your intention; what you intend to do 3. Knowledge and intellectual ability 4. mentally oriented toward something specified

Miracle: 1. Any amazing or wonderful occurrence 2. A marvelous event manifesting a supernatural act of God

Misery: 1. A state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune 2. A feeling of intense unhappiness

Moderate: 1. A person who takes a position in the political center 2. Preside over 3. Make less fast or intense 4. Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits 5. Express less strongly 6. Restrain or temper 7. Being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme 8. Marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes

Momentum: 1. An impelling force or strength 2. The product of a body's mass and its velocity

Monotonous: 1. Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch 2. Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety

Moral: 1. Concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles 2. Arising from the sense of right and wrong 3. Psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect 4. Based on strong likelihood or firm conviction rather than actual evidence

Morals: 1. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong 2. The significance of a story or event 3. Are simply values, the principles that we choose to live by today in our recovery (Working Step Four In Narcotics Anonymous IP No. 10 Pg.2)

Morals: 1. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong 2. The significance of a story or event 3. Are simply values, the principles that we choose to live by today in our recovery.

Motivate: 1. Give an incentive

Motive: 1. The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action; the reason for the action 2. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music 3. Causing or able to cause motion 4. Impelling to action

Muddied: 1. discolored by impurities; not bright and clear

Mundane: 1. Found in the ordinary course of events 2. Concerned with the world or worldly matters 3. Belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly

Must: 1. Be obliged, required, or forced to 2. Be logically necessary 3. Highly recommended

Mutual: 1. Common to or shared by two or more parties 2. Experienced or expressed by each toward the other

Mutually: 1. In a mutual or shared manner