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garbled

"A garbled account of the matter that had reached his colleagues led to some gentle ribbing." H. G. Wells, "The Man Who Could Work Miracles"

garrulous

"The more he drank, the more garrulous he became, until he suddenly seemed to fade out." Lawrence O'Brien, W. C. Fields

gaudy

"This computer drawing program permits children to express themselves in the most gaudy art they can imagine."

Working Mother, 5/96

gaunt

"Her gaunt expression was mistaken for weakness of spirit, whereas it told the sad story of her life." George Eliot,

Middle March

genocide

"Accounts of the destruction of masses of people recall that genocide is an ancient practice." Otto Friedrich, Before the Deluge

genre

"There is a certain difference between a work called a romance and the genre known as the novel." Nathaniel Hawthorne

germane

"In assigning ratings to films, is it not germane to consider the nature and extent of violence shown?" The Hollywood Reporter, 5/19/97

gesticulating

" 'Three times' was still all he could say, in his thick, angry voice, gesticulating at the commissaire and glaring at me." Francis Steegmuller, "The Foreigner"

gist

"The gist of it is . . . love is a great beautifier." Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

gleaned

"I gleaned what I could from college, but independent reading soon broadened my horizons." I. F. Stone, Weekly Reader

glib

"It is not glib to maintain that truth can never be contained in one creed." Mary Augusta Ward, Robert Elsmere

gratuity

"What form of gratuity would compensate his informer's key bit of information?" Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

gregariousness

"We will take with us one thing alone that exists among porpoises as among men; an ingrained gregariousness." Loren Eiseley, "Man and Porpoise"

grimace

"When informed of the death of his best friend, he was unemotional, not a grimace marred his face." James Jones,

The Thin Red Line

grotesque

"Nowadays, men have to work, and women to marry for money; it's a dreadfully grotesque world." Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

guise

"Freedom is not worth fighting for, if, under its guise, one tries to get as much as he can for himself." Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Seasoned Timber

gullible

"'Charles the horse was wonderful!' cried a gullible goose." James Thurber, "What Happened to Charles"

gusto

"Ali faced each fight with supreme confidence and challenged his opponents with wit and gusto." "His Greatest Challenge," Sports Illustrated, 5/5/97

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habitat

"Billy begins to be happy about life only in an artificial but cozy habitat on another planet." William Bly, Barron's Book Notes, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

halcyon

"The halcyon days we recall with pleasure had many clouded moments." Wolcott Gibbs, New Yorker, 4/8/49

hapless

"Parents, too, have an almost irresistible impulse to mold their children in

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their own image or at least graft a few of their own ambitions onto their hapless off-spring.'' Arthur Gordon, "The Neglected Art of Being Different"

harassing

"Over the next weeks came more amendments and harassing tactics including a motion to postpone selection of a new capital." Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years

harbingers

"It is easy enough to find harbingers of the episode in the early coverage of Mrs. Dole's candidacy." TIME, 5/24/99

haven

"The desire to escape the city has filtered down into every other economic group, and as a result of the suburb's popularity, that haven of refuge is itself filling up." Lewis Mumford, "The Roaring Traffic's Boom"

havoc

"Excessive sensitiveness plays havoc with children's nerves." Guy De Maupassant, "Looking Back"

heinous

"All crimes against a whole people are measured by the heinous ones carried out by Hitler." Civilization, 12/99

heresy

"Calvin had written that heresy was not an evil, deserving death." Herbert Brucker, Journalist

heterogeneous

"The family is heterogeneous enough to make quite a good party in itself." Rose Macauley, The World My Wilderness

hirsute

"The difference between this rock concert and one 10 years earlier is the marked decrease in hirsute young men." TIME, 8/8/99

histrionics

"Bobby Valentine's histrionics will be irrelevant, because Rule 51 states that any manager who is ejected must remain in the clubhouse until the game is over." Jack Curry, "Valentine is Suspended and Fined," New York Times, 6/11/99

hoard

"Many people give freely of their affections while you hoard yours." Joseph Conrad, Victory

hoax

"Frank Spencer, an anthropologist who rummaged through the bones of controversy to theorize about the identity of the mastermind behind the Piltdown Man hoax of 1912, died on Sunday." Obituary notice, New York Times, 6/12/99

homogeneous

"Archaeologists have unearthed evidence showing that the people of ancient Egypt were far from a homogeneous civilization." Brian Fagan, Time Detective

hostile

"He might commit some hostile act, attempt to strike me or choke me." Jack London, White Fang

humility

"Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and humility; I chose arrogance." Frank Lloyd Wright

hyperbole

"It is not hyperbole to state that, most terribly, justice and judgment lie often a world apart." Emmeline Pankhurst,

My Own Story

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iconoclast

"He was an iconoclast about everything, except his love of money." Garry Wills, syndicated newspaper column, 3/8/79

idyllic

"The brilliant Hawaiian sunrise beckons you to a great breakfast as your tour of the idyllic islands begins." Brochure for Perillo Tours

ignominious

"Henry Clay had ambition to become president, but he faced an ignominious series of setbacks." H. Foner, Failed Candidates

ilk

"'That's the standard line,' Ron said, 'as promoted by some Japanese businessmen and American spokesmen of their ilk.'" Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

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