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Galvanize

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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

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Gaffe

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Socially awkward and tactless act “made a gaffe”

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Gamut

GAM uht

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The complete range of-

“Expressed a gamut of emotions”

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Garish

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Overly showy

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Genial

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Friendly

Diffusing warmth and kindness

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Garrulous

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Full of trivial conversation.

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Genteel

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Refined, cultured, gentlemanly
Sometimes used sarcastically

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Gentility

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Extreme graciousness and elegance

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Genuflect

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To literally bow before a superior or religious image

Or figuratively to an idea. Servile.

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Germane

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Relevant

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Germinal

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In developmental stage

Containing seeds of later development

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Gerrymander

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To manipulate the boundaries of a voting district

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Gestate

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

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Gibe

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An aggressive remark directed towards a person like a missile.

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Gingerly

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With care

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Glean

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To gather bit by bit.

Gleaning information from words

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Glib

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Full of rhetoric
A glib salesman

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Glower

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To stare angrily

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Glut

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N
So much that prices fall

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

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Glutinous

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Goad

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To prod with a poured stick
My moms goading convinced me

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Gossamer

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

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gourmand

MAHND

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Glutton to the extreme

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Graduated

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

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Grandiloquent
Pretentious
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Gratify
Make someone happy Good grades gratifies my mom
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Gratuitous
Gratuitous means "without cause" or "unnecessary." Telling ridiculous jokes at a somber occasion would be a display of gratuitous humor.
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Gratuity
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.
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Gregarious
A | Outgoing, enjoying the company if others
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Grievous
Shocking wrong or cruel
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Grisly
Grisly means disgusting and bloody, absolutely repulsive and horrible.
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Grovel
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).
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Gruff
Abrupt/ forbidding tone | Gruff is the perfect adjective to describe a crotchety old man who rarely leaves his house and yells at any children
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Guileless
Free of deceit. Often, gullible.
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Gumption
If you have gumption, you have guts. People with gumption are determined and full of courage — and common sense, too.