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- gadabout: one who roams about in search of amusement or social activity.
- gainsay: to contradict; to deny.
- gallimaufry: a hodgepodge.
- galumph: to move in a clumsy manner or with a heavy tread.
- galvanic: pertaining to a direct current of electricity; also, having the effect of an electric shock
- gambol: to dance and skip about in play.
- gamine: an urchin; also, a mischievous girl or young woman.
- gamut: a complete extent or range.
- garrulous: talkative.
- garrulous: talkative; also, wordy.
- gastronome: a lover of good food and drink.
- gastronome: a person devoted to refined enjoyment of good food and drink.
- gauche: lacking social polish; tactless.
- gaucherie: a socially awkward or tactless act; also, lack of tact.
- gelid: extremely cold; icy.
- genial: sympathetically cheerful and cheering; kindly.
- genuflect: to bend the knee, as in worship; also, to grovel.
- germane: appropriate or fitting; relevant.
- gesticulate: to make gestures or motions.
- gewgaw: a showy trifle; a pretty but worthless bauble.
- gewgaw: a trinket; a bauble.
- gimcrack: a showy but useless or worthless object.
- gimcrack: a trivial mechanism.
- glabrous: without hairs or projections; smooth.
- gloaming: twilight; dusk.
- glower: to stare angrily or with a scowl.
- gnomic: uttering or containing maxims.
- gnomic: uttering, containing, or characterized by maxims.
- gourmand: one who enjoys good food in great quantities.
- grandee: a man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman.
- grandiloquent: lofty in style.
- gravid: pregnant.
- gravitas: high seriousness; dignity.
- gregarious: seeking and enjoying the company of others.
- grok: to understand.
- Grub Street: the world or category of impoverished literary hacks.
- gubernatorial: of or pertaining to a governor.
- gustatory: pertaining to the sense of taste.