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28 Cards in this Set

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