mark-stain

mad / furious

main / major / principal

make / form / shape

manage / conduct / direct

mark / stain / spot / smudge / speck

match / coincide / correspond

maybe / perhaps / possibly / probably

meddle / interfere / tamper

meet / get together / bump into / run into / gather / assemble / encounter / confront

metaphor / simile

mistake / blunder

modern / contemporary

month

most / most of


	mark / stain / spot / smudge / speck

A.	mark는 표면에 생긴 더러운 자국이나 얼룩을 의미한다.
1.	You have an ink mark on your sleeve
2.	What's that mark on your shirt?
3.	There's a mark on the wall where the chair rubbed it.

B.	stain은 mark보다 크고 제거하기가 어려운 얼룩진 자국을 의미한다.
1.	There are stains on the wall.
2.	I can't get the juice stain out of my shirt.
3.	I can't get this stain out of my dress.
4.	The pillow had a large stain on it the color of tobacco.

C.	spot은 작은 원형의 자국을 의미한다.
1.	Oh no, I got grease spots on my pants.
2.	His bow tie was white with red spots.
3.	What's that spot on your shirt?
4.	You have grease spots on your suit.
5.	That spot on her arm is a bruise.
6.	He got ink spots on his jacket.

D.	smudge는 문지르면서 생긴 얼룩을 의미한다.
1.	There were smudges of ink all over the page.
2.	You have a smudge of paint on your cheek.
3.	There is a smudge of lipstick on his cheek.
4.	There was a lipstick smudge on the rim of my cup.

E.	speck은 작은 반점을 의미한다.
1.	A few specks of paint got on the rug.
2.	The airplane looks like a speck in the clouds.
3.	She cleans every speck of dust off her computer each morning.
4.	There's never a single speck of dust in her house.

There are stains on the wall.

His bow tie was white with red spots.

There is a smudge of lipstick
on his cheek.

There's never a single speck of dust in her house.