English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'G'

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English Vocabulary
Words Start from Letter 'G'

1. GARNISH: To trim or decorate
   Sentence:
   * Dishes garnished attractively with greens.
   Synonyms: adorn, deck
   
   
2. GENEALOGY: A record of a person's or a family's ancestors or relatives
   Sentence:
   * An interesting genealogy, including saints and sinners.
   Synonym: lineage
   
   
3. GENESIS: Origin
   Sentence:
   * Chemistry, which had its genesis in alchemy.
   Synonym: inception
   
   
4. GESTICULATE: To make gestures, or indicate feelings by motions.
   Sentence:
   * Gesticulated wildly to show his distress.
   
   
5. GHASTLY: Horrible, deathlike
   Sentence:
   * A ghastly disaster which shocked the world.
   Synonyms: gruesome, grisly, pallid, macabre, grim, lurid
   
   
6. 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
   
   
7. GLIB: Smooth-spoken, fluent
   Sentence:
   * A glib liar, distorting the truth effortlessly.
   
   
8. GLUTTONOUS (Noun. GLUTTON; Verb: GLUT): Inclined to cat to excess
   Sentence:
   * Gulped down his food in gluttonous fashion.
   Synonyms: voracious, intemperate
   
   
9. 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
   
   
10. GREGARIOUS: Habitually fond of associating in a company or herd
    Sentence:
    * Gregarious sheep; that gregarious animal, man.
    Antonyms: lone, aloof
    
    
11. GRIMACE: A distortion of the face to express an attitude or feeling
    Sentence:
    * A grimace that was more expressive than words.

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