G

Question 1

Garner

Answer 1

To gather and save

The ants garnered food for the winter.

Question 2

Garrulous

Answer 2

Pointlessly talkative

It was easy to see how nervous Gary was by how much he was talking; he always gets garrulous when he is anxious.

Question 3

Germane

Answer 3

Relevant to the subject at hand

If you post anything that is not germane to the article, you will be banned from the site.

Question 4

Glib

Answer 4

Nonchalant, superficial

Politicians need to provide more than glib answered to difficult questions like abortion.

Question 5

Gossamer

Answer 5

Delicate, something light

The wings of insects like butterflies and dragonfly are gossamer.

Question 6

Grandiloquence

Answer 6

Pompous speech or expression

The authors grandiloquence style gave me a headache; it was so hard to wade through all the flowery language to get to the real meaning.

Question 7

Gregarious

Answer 7

Sociable, enjoying the company of others

Matt Lorig is so gregarious he always found someone to talk to wherever he is.

Question 8

Grouse

Answer 8

Complain or grumble

When working at Pangeae I was always grouse about the dirty dishes and state of the common areas.

Question 9

Guile

Answer 9

Trickery, cunning

The wily con man used guile to part us from our money, but at least we ended up with this snake oil.

Question 10

Gullible

Answer 10

A person that can be guild.

Question 11

Hackneyed

Answer 11

Lacking significance through overuse

Adelles music is hackneyed; it’s all about breakups all the time.

Question 12

Halcyon

Answer 12

Calm and peaceful

I hate it when the halcyon days of summer were interrupted by the start of school in the fall.

Question 13

Hallow

Answer 13

Set apart to be holy

The site for the new church was set aside and hallowed in a special ceremony.

Question 14

Harangue

Answer 14

Loud, pompous speech or tirade

After having been harangued for hours about the superiority of his methods, we should be forgiven for laughing when his demonstration failed.

Question 15

Harbinger

Answer 15

An omen; sign; anything that foreshadows a future event

Many scientists note that the growing number of hurricanes are harbingers of global climate change.

Question 16

Harrow

Answer 16

To distress, create stress or torment

Is a tool used to break up the soil

Question 17

Hedonism

Answer 17

Devotion to pleasurable pursuits

Spring break is popularly know as a festival of hedonism when thousands of college student gather for a week of debauchery in the sun.

Question 18

Hegemony

Answer 18

The consistent dominance or influence of one group, state or ideology.

It has been argued that the US has achieved global hegemony in the post Cold War era.

Question 19

Heretical

Answer 19

Violating accepted dogma or convention, unorthodox

Galileo was brought before the Inquisition because of his heretical agreement that the earth moved around the sun.

Question 20

Hermetic

Answer 20

Airtight, impervious to outside influence

The tomb’s hermetic seal allowed its contents to be perfectly preserved for thousands of years.

Question 21

Hermeneutic

Answer 21

Explanatory or interpretation

Question 22

Discretion

Answer 22

Ability to make responsible decisions

The key to the matchmakers discretion was the key to her remarkable success.

Question 23

Disparage

Answer 23

Slight or belittle

I don’t think you have any right to disparage his attempts until you have tried riding the mechanical bull yourself.

Question 24

Disparate

Answer 24

Fundamentally distinct

I found it amazing that two people with such disparate tastes could decorate a house together.

Question 25

Dissemble

Answer 25

To mislead

Dissembling on your grad school application is an absolute no-no.

Question 26

Dissolution

Answer 26

Looseness in morals

The company would be threatened with dissolution if it were judged to be operating in a monopoly.

Question 27

Dissonance

Answer 27

Lack of harmony, conflict

Most often used in music

Question 28

Distrait

Answer 28

Distracted; especially due to anxiety

When he kept forgetting what he was talking about during dinner, it became clear that he was distracted.

Question 29

Divulge

Answer 29

To disclose something secret

She believed she had been fired because she had threatened to divulge the company’s secret recipe.

Question 30

Doggerel

Answer 30

Comical verse with irregular rhythm

Question 31

Dogmatic

Answer 31

Strong set of principles

Eve’s dogmatic insistence on the importance of following procedure to the letter frustrated her coworker who were willing to cut a few corners to save time.

Question 32

Dross

Answer 32

Waste, foreign matter, impurity

We discarded the dross that had formed at the top of the cider during the fermentation process.

Question 33

Dulcet

Answer 33

Melodious, harmonious

The dulcet tones of the dulcimer were exquisite and made the performance particularly memorable.

Question 34

Heterodox

Answer 34

Unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

Question 35

Hidebound

Answer 35

Narrow or rigid in opinion, inflexible

He was hidebound by outdated notions of chivalry

Question 36

Hortatory

Answer 36

Using to some course of action, encouraging

The hortatory graduation speech encouraged the graduates to find there own path.

Question 37

Hubris

Answer 37

Arrogant presumption

Icarus was destroyed by the sun for his hubris in daring to fly so close to the sun.

Often used to describe classic characters.

Question 38

Hyperbole

Answer 38

Exaggerated statement, often a figure of speech