1.mortgage n.抵押貸款(a loan of money which you get from a bank in order to buy a house or other property);y．抵押(use house or land as a guarantee in order to borrow money)

詞根記憶：mort(死亡)+gage(抵押品)--用抵押品使債務死亡--抵押

例：Interest rates for home mortgages are expected to rise sharply.

2.mosaics n．馬賽克(a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns)；嵌合體(an organism or one of its parts composed of cells of more than one genotype)

發音記憶：mo（馬）+saic(賽克)+s--馬賽克

例：There is no single region to which all the species depicted in the Sepphoris mosaics are native.

3.motsque n．清真寺(a Moslem house of worship)

發音記憶：和“莫斯科”發音頗像

例：The Turkish sultan established a mosque in the building and used the Acropolis as a fortress.

4.mosquito n．蚊子

發音記憶：“貌似黑頭”--像鼻子上的黑頭--蚊子

例：I left the picnic early because there were too many mosquitoes.

5.moth n．蛾：蛀蟲(typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae)

發音記憶：“莫死”--不畏死--飛蛾( moth)撲火哪畏死

例：Each species of moth has an optimal body temperature for effective flight.

派生詞：mothy(a．多蛾的；蟲蛀的)

6.motion n.運動(movement)；提議（尤指會議提案）(proposal)

詞根記憶：mot(動)+ion--運動

例：Those objects are in motion.//Judge Bonham denied a motion.

7.motivate v.激發，刺激(to provide with a motive)

詞根記憶：mot(動)+iv+ate(使…)--激發

例：In order to motivate our advertising agency to perform better, we should start basing the amount that we pay it on how much total profit we make each year.

派生詞：motivation(n．動機；積極性)

同根詞：promote(n.推動，促進)

8.mound n．土丘，土墩(a small hill)

和ground (n.地面)一起記：mound on the ground

例：Archaeologists are excavating in a middle and a lower layer of a large mound.

9.mount v.增加，增長(to rise, ascend)

圓本身為詞根：升，上

例：The national debt continued to mount throughout the decade.

派生詞：mounting(n.襯墊)