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English Vocabulary
Words Start from Letter 'G'
- GARNISH: To trim or decorate
Sentence:
* Dishes garnished attractively with greens.
Synonyms: adorn, deck - GENEALOGY: A record of a person's or a
family's ancestors or relatives
Sentence:
* An interesting genealogy, including saints and sinners.
Synonym: lineage - GENESIS: Origin
Sentence:
* Chemistry, which had its genesis in alchemy.
Synonym: inception - GESTICULATE: To make gestures, or indicate feelings by motions.
Sentence:
* Gesticulated wildly to show his distress. - GHASTLY: Horrible, deathlike
Sentence:
* A ghastly disaster which shocked the world.
Synonyms: gruesome, grisly, pallid, macabre, grim, lurid - GIBE (variant spelling: JIBE):
(1) (Verb): To laugh at; to utter with scorn
Sentence:
* Gibed at his enemy mercilessly.
Synonyms: mock, sneer, jeer, scoff, flout, deride
(2) (Adj.: derisive) rail, taunt - GLIB: Smooth-spoken, fluent
Sentence:
* A glib liar, distorting the truth effortlessly. - GLUTTONOUS (Noun. GLUTTON; Verb: GLUT): Inclined to cat to excess
Sentence:
* Gulped down his food in gluttonous fashion.
Synonyms: voracious, intemperate - GOSSAMER:
(1) (Noun): A very thin gauze like fabric or structure
Sentence:
* A poem so delicate that it seemed an unreal gossamer
(2) (Adj.): Thin and light
Sentence:
* The gossamer wings of a dragon fly.
Synonyms: diaphanous, flimsy, gauze like.
Antonyms: substantial, ponderous - GREGARIOUS: Habitually fond of associating in a company or herd
Sentence:
* Gregarious sheep; that gregarious animal, man.
Antonyms: lone, aloof - GRIMACE: A distortion of the face to express an attitude or feeling
Sentence:
* A grimace that was more expressive than words.
Adj. = Adjective
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