gossamer | a. sheer, light, delicate, or tenuous |
gourmand | n. person who takes excessive pleasure in food and drink |
granary | n. building for storing threshed grain; region yielding much grain |
grandeur | n. Syn. impressiveness; magnificence; majesty quality or condition of being grand; magnificence |
grandiloquent | a. speaking or expressed in lofty style; using high sounding language; overly wordy |
grandiose | a. Syn. pretentious; impressive impressive from inherent grandeur; large and impressive, in size, scope or extent |
granular | a. consisting of or resembling grains; having grainy texture |
granulate | v. form into grains or small masses; make rough on surface |
grapple | v. Syn. wrestle wrestle; come to grips with; seize firmly, as with the hands |
gratification | n. act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite |
gratify | v. Syn. please give pleasure to; satisfy; indulge; make happy |
gratuitous | a. given freely; unwarranted; granted without recompense; unearned |
gratuity | n. something given freely or without recompense; free gift; a present |
gravity | n. Syn. seriousness seriousness; solemn and dignified feeling; natural force between two massive bodies |
gregarious | a. Syn. sociable sociable; seeking and enjoying the company of others |
grief | n. pain of mind; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends; sorrow; sadness |
grievance | n. Syn. grief; affliction cause of grief or distress; discomfort or pain |
grievous | a. causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful |
grimace | n. facial distortion to show feeling such as pain, disgust |
grindstone | n. revolving stone disk used for grinding, polishing, or sharpening tools; millstone |
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