G Flashcards
(35 cards)
Galvanize
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
Gaffe
Socially awkward and tactless act “made a gaffe”
Gamut
GAM uht
The complete range of-
“Expressed a gamut of emotions”
Garish
A
Overly showy
Genial
Friendly
Diffusing warmth and kindness
Garrulous
Full of trivial conversation.
Genteel
A
Refined, cultured, gentlemanly
Sometimes used sarcastically
Gentility
Extreme graciousness and elegance
Genuflect
V
To literally bow before a superior or religious image
Or figuratively to an idea. Servile.
Germane
Relevant
Germinal
In developmental stage
Containing seeds of later development
Gerrymander
V
To manipulate the boundaries of a voting district
Gestate
V
To be “in the womb”
Developing stage.
Facebook gestated for two months.
Gibe
An aggressive remark directed towards a person like a missile.
Gingerly
With care
Glean
To gather bit by bit.
Gleaning information from words
Glib
A
Full of rhetoric
A glib salesman
Glower
V
To stare angrily
Glut
N
So much that prices fall
A glut if gas at Costco wasn’t good for business
Glutinous
Glue like
Goad
V
To prod with a poured stick
My moms goading convinced me
Gossamer
N
Gossamer is something super fine and delicate — like a spider web or the material of a wedding veil.
gourmand
MAHND
N
Glutton to the extreme
Graduated
A
When something is graduated, it goes step-by-step or by degrees, such as a graduated income tax