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Question 0

Galvanize

Answer 0

The verb galvanize refers to stimulating muscles with an electrical current, and is also used to suggest stimulating someone into action.

Galvanize a political movement

Question 1

Gaffe

Answer 1

Socially awkward and tactless act “made a gaffe”

Question 2

Gamut

GAM uht

Answer 2

The complete range of-

“Expressed a gamut of emotions”

Question 3

Garish

Answer 3

A

Overly showy

Question 4

Genial

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Friendly

Diffusing warmth and kindness

Question 5

Garrulous

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Full of trivial conversation.

Question 6

Genteel

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A
Refined, cultured, gentlemanly
Sometimes used sarcastically

Question 7

Gentility

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Extreme graciousness and elegance

Question 8

Genuflect

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V
To literally bow before a superior or religious image

Or figuratively to an idea. Servile.

Question 9

Germane

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Relevant

Question 10

Germinal

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In developmental stage

Containing seeds of later development

Question 11

Gerrymander

Answer 11

V

To manipulate the boundaries of a voting district

Question 12

Gestate

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V
To be “in the womb”
Developing stage.
Facebook gestated for two months.

Question 13

Gibe

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An aggressive remark directed towards a person like a missile.

Question 14

Gingerly

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With care

Question 15

Glean

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To gather bit by bit.

Gleaning information from words

Question 16

Glib

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A
Full of rhetoric
A glib salesman

Question 17

Glower

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V

To stare angrily

Question 18

Glut

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N
So much that prices fall

A glut if gas at Costco wasn’t good for business

Question 19

Glutinous

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Glue like

Question 20

Goad

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V
To prod with a poured stick
My moms goading convinced me

Question 21

Gossamer

Answer 21

N

Gossamer is something super fine and delicate — like a spider web or the material of a wedding veil.

Question 22

gourmand

MAHND

Answer 22

N

Glutton to the extreme

Question 23

Graduated

Answer 23

A

When something is graduated, it goes step-by-step or by degrees, such as a graduated income tax

Question 24

Grandiloquent

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Pretentious

Question 25

Gratify

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Make someone happy

Good grades gratifies my mom

Question 26

Gratuitous

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Gratuitous means “without cause” or “unnecessary.” Telling ridiculous jokes at a somber occasion would be a display of gratuitous humor.

Question 27

Gratuity

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a tip that’s given by a customer in exchange for services. You might leave a gratuity of several dollars when you eat lunch in a restaurant or when you get your hair cut.

Question 28

Gregarious

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A

Outgoing, enjoying the company if others

Question 29

Grievous

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Shocking wrong or cruel

Question 30

Grisly

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Grisly means disgusting and bloody, absolutely repulsive and horrible.

Question 31

Grovel

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To grovel is to beg like a hungry dog. You don’t have to be a canine, though, you might grovel for a better grade (please don’t).

Question 32

Gruff

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Abrupt/ forbidding tone

Gruff is the perfect adjective to describe a crotchety old man who rarely leaves his house and yells at any children

Question 33

Guileless

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Free of deceit. Often, gullible.

Question 34

Gumption

Answer 34

If you have gumption, you have guts. People with gumption are determined and full of courage — and common sense, too.