Vocabulary for the College Bound Chapter 8
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- gumption
- courage and initative; common sense; enterprise
- garner
- to gather; to acquire
- gratuitous
- unnecessary or uncalled for
- elocution
- manner of speaking
- garrulous
- talkative
- loquacious
- chattery; garrulous
- fop
- an excessively fashion-conscious man; dandy; macaroni
- gambol
- to frolic; to romp about playfully
- grotesque
- absurd; distorted
- hackneyed
- commonplace; overused; trite; banal; cliched
- L. german
- relative/family member (L. answer)
- garish
- tastelessly gaudy; flashy; ostentatious (flashy, but not gaudy)
- gloat
- to look at or think about with great satisfaction; crow over; revel in \n ant:irrelevent
- glower
- to stare angrily
- fortuitous
- lucky; by chance ant: premedidated; intentional
- L. loqui
- relating to speech (L. answer)
- gibe
- to scoff; to ridicule; jeer; taunt; sneer
- germane
- relevant; fitting
- grandiose
- impressive, showy, magnificent