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- GARISHOverly ostentatious; so colorful as to be in bad taste.
- GELATINOUSJelly-like.
- GENTRYBirth; condition; rank by birth.
- GHASTLYLike a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal.
- GIRLA female child.
- GLEANTo collect (fruit, grain, or other produce) from a field, an orchard, etc., after the main gathering or harvest.
- GLORIFYTo exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone).
- GLUTENOUSAlternative spelling of glutinous.
- GNOMELIKEResembling a gnome.
- GNOSTICAlternative letter-case form of Gnostic.
- GOLIATHAlternative letter-case form of Goliath.
- GOULASHA stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
- GRIEVOUSCausing grief, pain, or sorrow.
- HAIKUA Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic them
- HAPTICOf or relating to the sense of touch.
- HAUTEObsolete spelling of haut and haught (“high; haughty”).
- HEREDITYHereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their
- HICCUPYCharacterised by hiccups.
- HUBRISExcessive arrogance or pride, or presumption; originally toward the gods; a feeling of overwhelming and all-encompassing pride.
- HYPNOTICOf or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
- IMPACTFULHaving impact.
- IMPUDENTNot showing due respect; bold-faced, impertinent.
- INFLUXA flow inward or into something; a coming in.
- INTEGRALConstituting a whole together with other parts or factors; not omittable or removable.
- INTERTo bury in a grave.
- JUDICATETo judge; to adjudicate.
- KISMETFate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.
- KNOWLEDGEThe fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
- LIEUA place or stead.
- LINGUISTOne who studies linguistics.
- LUCIDITYThe property of being lucid; lucidness.
- LUXURIATETo enjoy luxury, to indulge.
- MANIFESTEvident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived.
- MEAGERHaving little flesh; lean; thin.
- MICROBEAny microorganism; especially, a harmful bacterium.
- MINISCULEAlternative form of minuscule.
- MISANDRISTExhibiting or pertaining to misandry; hating or prejudiced against men.
- MODALITYThe fact of being modal.
- MOLECULARRelating to, or consisting of, or produced by molecules.
- MONOLITHICOf or resembling a monolith.
- MORBIDITYThe quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.
- MORIBUNDApproaching death; about to die; dying; expiring.
- MORIBUNDITYthe state or condition of being moribund
- MOURNFULLYIn a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.
- MYSTIFIEDsimple past and past participle of mystify
- NOXIOUSHarmful; injurious.
- OAFISHCharacteristic of or resembling an oaf; clumsy, stupid.
- OBLIVIOUSLacking awareness; unmindful; unaware, unconscious of.
- OCCUPANTA person who occupies an office or a position.
- OCTAGONALShaped like an octagon, in having eight sides and eight angles.
- ORATIONA formal, often ceremonial speech.
- ORIFICEA mouth or aperture, such as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening.
- PARITYEquality; comparability of strength or intensity.
- PARSETo resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe gram
- PEDANTA person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
- PEDANTICBeing overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
- PEDANTRYAn excessive attention to detail or rules. An instance of such behaviour.
- PERILOUSDangerous, full of peril.
- PERSONIFYTo be an example of; to have all the attributes of.
- PESKYAnnoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).
- PHONICOf or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic.
- PINATAAlternative form of piñata.
- PLIANCYThe quality of being pliant.
- PONDEROUSHeavy, massive, weighty.
- PONTIFFA member of the most illustrious of the colleges of priests of the Roman religion, the College of Pontiffs; a pontifex.
- PONTIFYTo pontificate.
- POROSITYThe state of being porous.
- POTLIKEResembling a pot.
- PRODUCTIVECapable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
- PROWThe front part of a vessel.
- PROXIMALCloser to the point of attachment or observation.
- PROXIMATEClose or closest; adjacent.
- PROXIMITYCloseness; the state of being near in space, time, or relationship.
- PUBESCENTAt or just after the age of puberty.
- PUNTYA metal rod used in the glassblowing process. After a glass vessel has been blown to approximate size and the bottom of the piece has been finalized, the rod, which is tipped with
- QUIRKYGiven to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute.
- RABIDITYrabidness
- RAPIDITYspeed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid
- RECLUSIONLife as a recluse.
- RECTIFYTo heal (an organ or part of the body).
- RECURSIONThe act of recurring.
- REPUDIATETo reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
- RETICENTUnwilling to communicate; keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.
- RIFEWidespread, common, prevalent, current (mainly of unpleasant or harmful things).
- RUINATETo reduce to ruins; to destroy.
- RUMINATETo chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
- SABOTEURA person who intentionally causes the destruction of property in order to hinder the efforts of their enemy.
- SALINITYThe quality of being saline.
- SALIVARYRelating to saliva.
- SALIVATETo produce saliva.
- SALVEAn ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
- SAVANTA person of learning, especially one who is versed in literature or science.
- SCANTNot full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.
- SCYTHEAn instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.
- SECULARISTA person who believes in or supports secularism.
- SEVERITYThe state of being severe.
- SIPHONA bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other, in which hydrostatic pressure exerted due to the force of gravity moves liquid from one reservoir to another.
- SKIMPYSmall or inadequate; not generous; diminutive.
- SLEUTHA detective.
- SLOVENA habitually dirty or untidy man or boy; the male equivalent of slattern, or slut.