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malhumorado : bad mood

maniobra : ploy, maneuver

mansa : friendly

manteníanse : they kept

Mar Dulce : Fresh Sea. When Solís´expedition discovered Rí de la Plata they didn´t realize that it was a river, they only found that the water was different and it wasn´t salty.

mareantes : very literary way of saying sailor. If you use this word it will be more probably connected with dizziness or seasickness than with its real meaning

marineros : sailors

más : de más: spare

masa : mass

matanza : slaughter

matorral : bushes

mayor : greater

mazas : maces

menos : least. Por lo menos: at least

miembros : limbs

mientras : while

modo : de modo : so that

momentos : momentos

montón : pile, mass

mosquetes : muskets

muchedumbre : crowd

mujeres : women

mutuamente : each other

muy : very