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Granulate
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v. form into grains
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Grandioloquent
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adj. pompous; bombastic; using highsounding language. The politiician could never speak simply; she was always grandiloquent.
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Grisly
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adj. ghastly
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Grotto
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n. small town
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Grouse
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v. complain; fuss. Students traditionally grouse about too much homework.
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Gruel
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n. thin, liquid porridge. Our daily allotment of gruel hardly sufficed to feed us.
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Guffaw
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n. boisterous laughter.
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Guile
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n. deceit; duplicity; wiliness; cunning. . . . . guiless (without deceit)
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Gull
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v. trick; hoodwink. e.g. gullible
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Gustatory
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adj. affecting the senese of taste. the Thai restaurant offered an unusal gustatory experience for those used to a bland cuisine.
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Gusto
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n. enjoyment; enthusiasm. He accepted the assignemnt with such gusto that I feel he wuold have been satisified with a smaller salery.
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Guy
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n. cable or chain attached to something that needs to be braced
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Gyroscope
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n. apparatus used to maintain balance, ascertain direction.
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Hackles
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n. hairs on back and neck, especially of a dog. The dog's hackles rose and he began to growl as the sound of footsteps grew louder.
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Hackneyed
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adj. commonplace; trite. When the reviwer criticized the movie for its hackeneyed plot, we agreed; we had seen similar stories hundredds of times before.
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Halycon
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adj. calm; peaceful. In those halycon, trusted the silence.
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Hale
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adj. healthy. After a brief illness, he was hale.
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Hallowed
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adj. blessd; consercrated. They were buried in hallowed ground.
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Hap
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n. chance; luck. e.g. hapless (unfortunate)
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Harangue
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n. long, passionate, and vehment speech. In her lenghtly harangue, the principla berated the offenders.
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Harbinger
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n. forerunner. Her gazy look was a harbinger of days to come.
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Harrowing
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adj. agonizing; distressing; traumatic. Af first Terry Anderson did not wishe to discuss his harrowing months of captivity as a political hostage.
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Harry
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v. harass; annoy; tormernt; raid. The guerilla band harried the enemy nightly.
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Haughtiness
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n. pride; arrogance. Whe she realized that Darcy believed himself too good to dance with his inferiors, Elizabeth tok great offense at his haughtiness.
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Headlong
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adj. hasty; rash. the slave seized the unexpected chance to make a headlong dash across the border to freedom.
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Hegemony
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n. dominance, especially of one nation over others.
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Herpetologist
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n. one who studies reptiles
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Heterodox
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adj. unorthodox; unconvetional. To those who upheld the beilf that the earth did not move, Galileo's theory that the earth cricled the sun was disturbingly heterodox.
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