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- galvanize v
- To imbue with life or animation
- gamble v
- To risk money or other possession on an event, chance, or contingency
- gambol n
- Playful leaping or frisking
- gamester n
- A gambler
- gamut n
- The whole range or sequence
- garnish v
- In cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment
- garrison n
- The military force stationed in a fort, town, or other place for its defense
- garrote v
- To execute by strangling
- garrulous adj
- Given to constant trivial talking
- gaseous adj
- Light and unsubstantial
- gastric adj
- Of, pertaining to, or near the stomach
- gastritis n
- Inflammation of the stomach
- gastronomy n
- The art of preparing and serving appetizing food
- gendarme n
- In continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer
- genealogy n
- A list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants
- genealogist n
- A tracer of pedigrees
- generality n
- The principal portion
- generalize v
- To draw general inferences
- generally adv
- Ordinarily
- generate v
- To produce or cause to be
- generic adj
- Noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific
- generosity n
- A disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors heartily
- genesis n
- Creation
- geniality n
- Warmth and kindliness of disposition
- genital adj
- Of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs
- genitive adj
- Indicating source, origin, possession, or the like
- genteel adj
- Well-bred or refined
- gentile adj
- Belonging to a people not Jewish
- geology n
- The department of natural science that treats of the constitution and structure of the earth
- germane adj
- Relevant
- germinate v
- To begin to develop into an embryo or higher form
- gestation n
- Pregnancy
- gesticulate v
- To make gestures or motions, as in speaking, or in place of speech
- gesture n
- A movement or action of the hands or face, expressive of some idea or emotion
- ghastly adj
- Hideous
- gibe v
- To utter taunts or reproaches
- giddy adj
- Affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head
- gigantic adj
- Tremendous
- giver n
- One who gives, in any sense
- glacial adj
- Icy, or icily cold
- glacier n
- A field or stream of ice
- gladden v
- To make joyous
- glazier n
- One who cuts and fits panes of glass, as for windows
- glimmer n
- A faint, wavering, unsteady light
- glimpse n
- A momentary look
- globose adj
- Spherical
- globular adj
- Spherical
- glorious adj
- Of excellence and splendor
- glutinous adj
- Sticky
- gluttonous adj
- Given to excess in eating
- gnash v
- To grind or strike the teeth together, as from rage
- Gordian knot n
- Any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners
- gourmand n
- A connoisseur in the delicacies of the table
- gosling n
- A young goose
- gossamer adj
- Flimsy
- gourd n
- A melon, pumpkin, squash, or some similar fruit having a hard rind
- graceless adj
- Ungracious
- gradation n
- A step, degree, rank, or relative position in an order or series
- gradient adj
- Moving or advancing by steps
- granary n
- A storehouse for grain after it is thrashed or husked
- grandeur n
- The quality of being grand or admirably great
- grandiloquent adj
- Speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style
- grandiose adj
- Having an imposing style or effect
- grantee n
- The person to whom property is transferred by deed
- grantor n
- The maker of a deed
- granular adj
- Composed of small grains or particles
- granulate v
- To form into grains or small particles
- granule n
- A small grain or particle
- grapple v
- To take hold of
- gratification n
- Satisfaction
- gratify v
- To please, as by satisfying a physical or mental desire or need
- gratuitous adj
- Voluntarily
- gratuity n
- That which is given without demand or claim
- gravity n
- Seriousness
- gregarious adj
- Not habitually solitary or living alone
- grenadier n
- A member of a regiment composed of men of great stature
- grief n
- Sorrow
- grievance n
- That which oppresses, injures, or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong
- grievous adj
- Creating affliction
- grimace n
- A distortion of the features, occasioned by some feeling of pain, disgust, etc
- grindstone n
- A flat circular stone, used for sharpening tools
- grisly adj
- Fear-inspiring
- grotesque adj
- Incongruously composed or ill-proportioned
- grotto n
- A small cavern
- ground n
- A pavement or floor or any supporting surface on which one may walk
- guess n
- Surmise
- guile n
- Duplicity
- guileless adj
- Frank
- guinea n
- An English monetary unit
- guise n
- The external appearance as produced by garb or costume
- gullible adj
- Credulous
- gumption n
- Common sense
- gusto n
- Keen enjoyment
- guy n
- Stay-rope
- guzzle v
- To swallow greedily or hastily; gulp
- gynecocracy n
- Female supremacy
- gynecology n
- The science that treats of the functions and diseases peculiar to women
- gyrate v
- To revolve
- gyroscope n
- An instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation
- habitable adj
- Fit to be dwelt in
- habitant n
- Dweller
- habitual adj
- According to usual practice
- habitude n
- Customary relation or association
- hackney v
- To make stale or trite by repetition
- haggard adj
- Worn and gaunt in appearance
- halcyon adj
- Calm
- hale adj
- Of sound and vigorous health
- handwriting n
- Penmanship
- hanger-on n
- A parasite
- happy-go-lucky adj
- Improvident
- harangue n
- A tirade
- harass v
- To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances
- harbinger n
- One who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing
- hard-hearted adj
- Lacking pity or sympathy
- hardihood n
- Foolish daring
- harmonious adj
- Concordant in sound
- havoc n
- Devastation
- hawthorn n
- A thorny shrub much used in England for hedges
- hazard n
- Risk
- head first adv
- Precipitately, as in diving
- head foremost adv
- Precipitately, as in diving
- heartrending adj
- Very depressing
- heathenish adj
- Irreligious
- heedless adj
- Thoughtless
- heifer n
- A young cow
- heinous adj
- Odiously sinful
- hemorrhage n
- Discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel
- hemorrhoids n
- Pl Tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum
- henchman n
- A servile assistant and subordinate
- henpeck v
- To worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances
- heptagon n
- A figure having seven sides and seven angles
- heptarchy n
- A group of seven governments
- herbaceous adj
- Having the character of a herb
- herbarium n
- A collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study
- herbivorous adj
- Feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals
- hereditary adj
- Passing naturally from parent to child
- heredity n
- Transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc
- heresy n
- An opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles
- heretic n
- One who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy
- heritage n
- Birthright
- hernia n
- Protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position
- hesitancy n
- A pausing to consider
- hesitant adj
- Vacillating
- hesitation n
- Vacillation
- heterodox adj
- At variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion
- heterogeneity n
- Unlikeness of constituent parts
- heterogeneous adj
- Consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds
- heteromorphic adj
- Deviating from the normal form or standard type
- hexangular adj
- Having six angles
- hexapod adj
- Having six feet
- hexagon n
- A figure with six angles
- hiatus n
- A break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting
- hibernal adj
- Pertaining to winter
- Hibernian adj
- Pertaining to Ireland, or its people
- hideous adj
- Appalling
- hilarious adj
- Boisterously merry
- hillock n
- A small hill or mound
- hinder v
- To obstruct
- hindmost adj
- Farthest from the front
- hindrance n
- An obstacle
- hirsute adj
- Having a hairy covering
- hoard v
- To gather and store away for the sake of accumulation
- hoarse adj
- Having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or fatigue
- homage n
- Reverential regard or worship
- homogeneity n
- Congruity of the members or elements or parts
- homogeneous adj
- Made up of similar parts or elements
- homologous adj
- Identical in nature, make-up, or relation
- homonym n
- A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another
- homophone n
- A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another
- honorarium n
- A token fee or payment to a professional man for services
- hoodwink v
- To deceive
- horde n
- A gathered multitude of human beings
- hosiery n
- A stocking
- hospitable adj
- Disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness
- hospitality n
- The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness
- hostility n
- Enmity
- huckster n
- One who retails small wares
- humane adj
- Compassionate
- humanitarian n
- A philanthropist
- humanize v
- To make gentle or refined
- humbug n
- Anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead
- humiliate v
- To put to shame
- hussar n
- A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine
- hustle v
- To move with haste and promptness
- hybrid adj
- Cross-bred
- hydra n
- The seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules
- hydraulic adj
- Involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion
- hydrodynamics n
- The branch of mechanics that treats of the dynamics of fluids
- hydroelectric adj
- Pertaining to electricity developed water or steam
- hydromechanics n
- The mechanics of fluids
- hydrometer n
- An instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation
- hydrostatics n
- The branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids
- hydrous adj
- Watery
- hygiene n
- The branch of medical science that relates to improving health
- hypercritical adj
- Faultfinding
- hypnosis n
- An artificial trance-sleep
- hypnotic adj
- Tending to produce sleep
- hypnotism n
- An artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion
- hypnotize v
- To produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions
- hypocrisy n
- Extreme insincerity
- hypocrite n
- One who makes false professions of his views or beliefs
- hypodermic adj
- Pertaining to the area under the skin
- hypotenuse n
- The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle
- hypothesis n
- A proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion
- hysteria n
- A nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying