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June 24
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19
English
Graduate
06/24/2006

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Term
GAINSAY
Definition
to deny

"He still gainsays that he did not steal."
Term
GALL (n)
Definition
bitterness; careless nerve

"The gall taste was horrible."
Term
GALL (v)
Definition
to exasperate and irrate

"Please don't gall him while he's so nervous."
Term
GALLANT
Definition
a very fashionable young man

"The gallant was admired by all because of his high sense of fashion."
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GAMBOL
Definition
to dance or skip around playfully

"The children would gambol on their way home from school."
Term
GAME (adj)
Definition
courageous

"The game soldier was very courageous."
Term
GARGANTUAN
Definition
giant, tremendous

"The gargantuan spider was gigantic!"
Term
GARNER
Definition
to gather and store

"Let's garner the crops to save them to eat."
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GARRULOUS
Definition
very talkative

"The garrulous teenage girl was characterized as being effervescent."
Term
GAUCHE
Definition
crude, socially awkward

"He became gauche when he listened to Tom Waits and drank by himself."
Term
GAUCHERIE
Definition
a tactless or awkward act

"That was a gaucherie because no one appreciated it as it was very out of place and rude."
Term
GAUNT
Definition
thin and bony

"The gaunt survior nearly died of starvation."
Term
GAVEL
Definition
mallet used for commanding atention

"The chairman uses a gavel to get everyone's attention."
Term
GENTEEL
Definition
stylish, elegant in manner or appearance

"The genteel person was admired."
Term
GERIATRIC
Definition
relating to old age or the process of aging

"The geriatric surgeon did not know how to diagnose a child."
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GESTATION
Definition
growth process from conception to birth

"The embroy is the end stage of gestation."
Term
GIBE
Definition
to make heckling, taunting remarks

"If he steals my parking spot I will gibe him that I'll avenge the wrongdoing."
Term
GLIB
Definition
fluent in an insincere manner, offhand, casual

"The glib conversation made him never want to speak to her again."
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GLOWER
Definition
to glare, stare angrily and intensely

"I glowered at the person who I knew did me wrong."
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