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Money is the authorized medium of exchange; coined money is called coin or specie. What are termed in
England bank-notes are in the United States commonly called bills; as, a five-dollar bill. The notes of
responsible men are readily transferable in commercial circles, but they are not money; as, the stock was sold
for $500 in money and the balance in merchantable paper. Cash is specie or money in hand, or paid in hand;
as, the cash account; the cash price. In the legal sense, property is not money, and money is not property; for
property is that which has inherent value, while money, as such, has but representative value, and may or may
not have intrinsic value. Bullion is either gold or silver uncoined, or the coined metal considered without
reference to its coinage, but simply as merchandise, when its value as bullion may be very different from its
value as money. The word capital is used chiefly of accumulated property or money invested in productive
enterprises or available for such investment.
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MOROSE.
Synonyms:
acrimonious, dogged, ill-natured, splenetic, churlish, gloomy, severe, sulky, crabbed, gruff, snappish, sullen,
crusty, ill-humored, sour, surly.
The sullen and sulky are discontented and resentful in regard to that against which they are too proud to
protest, or consider all protest vain; sullen denotes more of pride, sulky more of resentful obstinacy. The
morose are bitterly dissatisfied with the world in general, and disposed to vent their ill nature upon others. The
sullen and sulky are for the most part silent; the morose growl out bitter speeches. A surly person is in a state
of latent anger, resenting approach as intrusion, and ready to take offense at anything; thus we speak of a surly
dog. Sullen and sulky moods may be transitory; one who is morose or surly is commonly so by disposition or
habit.
Antonyms:
amiable, complaisant, gentle, kind, pleasant, benignant, friendly, good-natured, loving, sympathetic, bland,
genial, indulgent, mild, tender.
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MOTION.
Synonyms:
act, change, movement, process, transition. action, move, passage, transit,
Motion is change of place or position in space; transition is a passing from one point or position in space to
another. Motion may be either abstract or concrete, more frequently the former; movement is always concrete,
that is, considered in connection with the thing that moves or is moved; thus, we speak of the movements of
the planets, but of the laws of planetary motion; of military movements, but of perpetual motion. Move is used
chiefly of contests or competition, as in chess or politics; as, it is your move; a shrewd move of the opposition.
Action is a more comprehensive word than motion. We now rarely speak of mental or spiritual motions, but
rather of mental or spiritual acts or processes, or of the laws of mental action, but a formal proposal of action
in a deliberative assembly is termed a motion. Compare ACT.
Antonyms:
immobility, quiescence, quiet, repose, rest, stillness.
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MOURN.
Synonyms:
bemoan, deplore, lament, regret, rue, sorrow. bewail, grieve,
To mourn is to feel or express sadness or distress because of some loss, affliction, or misfortune; mourning is
thought of as prolonged, grief or regret may be transient. One may grieve or mourn, regret, rue, or sorrow
without a sound; he bemoans with suppressed and often inarticulate sounds of grief; he bewails with
passionate utterance, whether of inarticulate cries or of spoken words. He laments in plaintive or pathetic
words, as the prophet Jeremiah in his "Lamentations." One deplores with settled sorrow which may or may
not find relief in words. One is made to rue an act by some misfortune resulting, or by some penalty or
vengeance inflicted because of it. One regrets a slight misfortune or a hasty word; he sorrows over the death
of a friend.
Antonyms:
be joyful, exult, joy, make merry, rejoice, triumph.
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MUTUAL.
Synonyms:
common, correlative, interchangeable, joint, reciprocal.
That is common to which two or more persons have the same or equal claims, or in which they have equal
interest or participation; in the strictest sense, that is mutual (Latin mutare, to change) which is freely
interchanged; that is reciprocal in respect to which one act or movement is met by a corresponding act or
movement in return; we speak of our common country, mutual affection, reciprocal obligations, the
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