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SAT Vocabulary Words Starting With G

Can you guess the definitions of these words that commonly appear on the Scholastic Aptitude Test?
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1. Gaffe (noun)
A laborer on a film set ✓
A machine used for making yarn from wool ✓
An embarassing error ✓
Frost crystals ✓
The elderly politician was elected despite his many gaffes
2. Gaudy (adjective)
Having a horrible odor ✓
Having a large, flabby chin ✓
Joyful; exuberant ✓
Overly showy or ornamented ✓
Liberace was known for his gaudy clothing
3. Gaunt (adjective)
Decorated with bright and lively colors ✓
Having an excess of wealth ✓
Strong in the face of adversity ✓
Thin, emaciated, bony ✓
The fashion model was gaunt with pointy elbows
4. Genuflect (verb)
To argue with excessive emotion ✓
To drop a knee to the ground in submission ✓
To engage in deep and complex calculations ✓
To give a donation, especially to a church ✓
The king genuflected before the pope and received his blessing
5. Gesticulate (verb)
To become enrolled in a college or university ✓
To dance wildly ✓
To drool ✓
To express oneself by making gestures ✓
The cyclist gesticulated and shouted at the BMW as it zoomed closely by
6. Genteel (adjective)
Elegant, aristocratic ✓
Given to excessive risk taking, especially in gambling ✓
Hard like steel ✓
Having a sour, acidic taste ✓
The genteel old man brought out a silk hankerchief and handed it to the crying girl
7. Glean (verb)
To bind a book ✓
To emit a soft, glowing light ✓
To gather small bits of grain left by reapers ✓
To listen with reverence ✓
She gleaned scraps of information from overheard conversation
8. Germane (adjective)
Having an unusually cold and icy demeanor ✓
Metallic ✓
Related to the subject at hand ✓
Swift and lively (especially as it relates to music) ✓
Sir, your colonoscopy is NOT germane to this discussion!
9. Glutton (noun)
A unit which measures the intensity of light ✓
An ancient tool used for measuring land ✓
One who charges excessive interest on a loan ✓
One who eats too much ✓
The glutton continued to gorge himself on the turkey leg
10. Gossamer (noun)
A negotiation between two warring parties ✓
A wooden beam used in construction ✓
Something light and delicate such as a cobweb ✓
The highest point in a medieval fortress ✓
Light showed through the gossamer fabric
11. Graft (noun)
A rough approximation used in place of a more exact calculation ✓
A spatula like tool used by bricklayers ✓
A traditional method of salting and drying fish ✓
Corruption, especially among government officials ✓
Graft and organized crime go hand in hand
12. Guile (noun)
Cunning; artful deception ✓
Having the ability to float ✓
The act of inscribing symbols on metal or stone ✓
The lack of stress or anxiety ✓
To win, a smaller fighter must use guile
13. Gentry (noun)
A large door or gate ✓
One employed to write or transcribe documents ✓
The distance around something ✓
The land-owning upper class that ranks below nobility ✓
14. Glib (adjective)
Covered with filth or soot ✓
Eloquent but insincere ✓
Existing for a short duration only ✓
Jolly ✓
The TV host had a glib comeback for every argument
15. Grandiloquent (adjective)
Extremely generous ✓
Having a smooth, mirror-like surface ✓
Puffed up with vanity ✓
Unable to be perceived ✓
The grandiloquent butler scoffed at the shabbily-dressed youths
buck1017
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Level 77
Apr 17, 2024
Graft was a rough one. I've never heard that word used in that way. I've only heard it used as a skin graft.
b1094
+1
Level 68
Apr 17, 2024
It's a Yankism.
toowise
+5
Level 78
Apr 17, 2024
It's used in the UK to mean hard work, one who works hard is called a "grafter".
overtired
+1
Level 84
Apr 17, 2024
Yeah, and it generally implies honest work. Funny that it's kinda the opposite of "the acquisition of gain (such as money) in dishonest or questionable ways" as Miriam-Webster puts it.
Dml123
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Level 68
Apr 19, 2024
I've definitely heard it referring to corruption etc in the UK. Listen to political commentators!
VanilleFramboise
+3
Level 74
Apr 17, 2024
Same, I was thinking of gardening when you graft things onto rootstock.
rjhanna
+1
Level 67
Apr 17, 2024
great quiz! noticed one typo though: in question 13, you're missing a "t" in "nobility".
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Apr 17, 2024
Fixed
Fianchetto
+1
Level 73
Apr 17, 2024
It must be fun coming up with the wrong answers for these.
thebigdp
+1
Level 87
Apr 17, 2024
Rat....I was thinking gaffer when I read gaffe. So of course I gave the wrong answer. Sigh
tschutzer
+3
Level 91
Apr 18, 2024
Minor critique here - while the answer for glean is a proper definition of the word, it's far outstripped in usage today by an alternate definition. In fact, the usage you cite afterward is an example of the alternate definition, not your chosen answer.
loganite
+1
Level 88
Apr 19, 2024
Where did you get the post-quiz definition for the first question, Joe Biden's Wikipedia page?! ;)
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