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- Gaudy
- Brightly colored, showy; decorated in a tasteless or vulgar way. Tacky or excessively ornamental.
- Galumph
- To walk or run in a clumsy or boisterous way. To move heavily, with thudding steps.
- Garnish
- To add something to food or drink to enhance flavor or apperance; to decorate something, usually food, with an ornament.
- Gestation
- The carrying of off-spring in the womb. The necessary period of time for the devolopement of a fetus during pregnancy. Also, the developement of a concept, idea, or plan. Not a "gas station," where you purchase gas.
- Galvanize
- To stimulate someone or something into actions, especially muscle fibers, by means of electric current. In a technical sense, to coat a metal wit zinc to prevent corrosion.
- Genteel
- Refined, good-mannered; typical of high social standing. Overdoing the refined behavior considered typical of the upper class. At the risk of provoking giggles, please do not confuse this well-mannered word with genital, which refers to external sexual organs.
- Gauche
- Lacking grace or tact in a social situation. Describes a socially inappropriate reamark or action.
- Gastronomy
- The art or appreciation of preparing and eating good food. Those who practice gastronomy don't necessarily have gas, but heir efforts do focus on things "gastro," relating to the stomach or belly.
- Gerrymander
- To divide an elector district so as to give a political advantage to a particualer party. To divide a geographic area into voting districts so as to give advantage to one party in elections.
- Goliath
- Something or someone large in size and stature; giant. When capitalized, refers to the biblical giant who was slain by David with a sling and stone.
- Garrulous
- Excessively talkative; using many, many, many, too many words.
- Gizmo
- An overy complicated device, usually mechanical. A gadget is a gizmo, and a gizmo is a gadget. Yes, they are synonyms.
- Gossipmonger
- Someone who conducts a conversation about personal or intimate rumors or facts, especially those thayt are malicious to and about others.
- Garner
- To earn, acquire, collect, amass, gather, or accumulate something by effort. To gather something into storage.
- Germane
- Suitably related to something, especially the tpic being discusses. Not to be confused with the noun German, which is smeone raised and born in Germany, the official language of Germany, or something from Germany. The word "German" is only germane when you are speaking about Germany.
- Gesticulation
- A movement of hands or arms that accompanies speech, usually for emphasis. An expression made with hands and arms, and not a vulgar one-finger gesture.
- Gamut
- The full range or extent. A critic once famously slammed an early performance of Katherine Hepburn's as running the "gamut of emotions from A to B." In music, refers to the entire series of standard musical notes.
- Glutton
- Someone who eats and drinks to excess, or who overindulges in a perticualre behavior.
- Goad
- To provoke, invite, stimulate, urge, or prod especially toward a specific action. Originally, the word meant a pointed stick used to prod animals.
- Gloaming
- The time of fading light after a sunset, just before dark.
- Gamesmanship
- Strategies used to gain an advantage in sports, life, business, or politics. Unconventional but not strictly illegal tatics employed to gain an advantage.
- Glasnost
- A Soviet policy permitting greater openness, discussion, and disclosure of ideas and information. Used by Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet premire, to describe the less repressive policies of the Soviet Union in the 1980s.