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g ~ (n) gram, gramme, gm; guanine; deoxyguanosine monophosphate; thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, grand, thou, yard; gee, g-force; gigabyte, GB; gigabyte, gibibyte, GB, GiB; gravitational constant, universal gravitational constant, constant of gravitation; g
gab ~ (n) chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin-wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging,
causerie
~ (v) chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber
gabfest ~ (n) chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin-wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie
~ (n) pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane; gauge
~ (v) derive; acquire, win; profit, benefit; reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at; advance, win, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground; advance; gather; take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in; put on
galling ~ (a) annoying, bothersome, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing
gamal ~ abdel nasser (n) Nasser
~ (v) frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, frisk, romp, run around, lark about
gamey ~ (a) blue, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy; gamy, high; game, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky
~ aminobutyric acid (n) GABA
~ hydroxybutyrate (n) GHB
gamy ~ (a) blue, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy; gamey, high; game, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky
garish ~ (a) brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
gastrointestinal ~ (a) GI
~ (v) garner, collect, pull together; meet, assemble, forgather, foregather; accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, amass; gather; pucker, tuck; assemble, get together; gather; gather; gain
~ (a) brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy; flashy, jazzy, showy, sporty
gelt ~ (n) boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons,
sugar, wampum
~ agreement on tariffs and trade (n) GATT
~ services administration (n) GSA
~ accepted accounting principles (n) GAAP
genius ~ (n) mastermind, brain, brainiac, Einstein; brilliance; ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz; wizardry; flair
~ charles hevesy de hevesy (n) Hevesy
~ washington carver (n) Carver
georges ~ bizet (n) Bizet
~ wilhelm friedrich hegel (n) Hegel
~ (v) acquire; become, go; let, have; receive, find, obtain, incur; arrive, come; bring, convey, fetch; experience, receive, have; pay back, pay off, fix; have, make; induce, stimulate, cause, have, make; catch, capture; grow, develop, produce, acquire; contract, take; get; make; drive, aim; catch; catch, arrest; catch; get; get; get; catch; catch; receive; scram, buzz off, fuck off, bugger off; get; get under one's skin; get; catch; draw; get; perplex, vex, stick, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound; get down, begin, start out, start, set about, set out, commence; suffer, sustain, have; beget, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth
~ across (v) put over; click, get through, dawn, come home, sink in, penetrate, fall into place; traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, cut through, cut across
~ along (v) do, fare, make out, come; get along with, get on with, get on; progress, come on, come along, advance, get on, shape up
~ at (v) access; get at; annoy, rag, get to, bother, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil
~ down (v) get down; lower, take down, let down, bring down; unhorse, dismount, light, get off; swallow; depress, deject, cast down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise; write down, set down, put down; begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence
~ it on (v) sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have
intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, bonk
~ laid (v) sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse,
have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk
~ on (v) get along with, get on with, get along; board; hop on, mount, mount up, jump on, climb on, bestride; get on; be on; progress, come on, come along, advance, get along, shape up; senesce, age, mature, maturate
~ over (v) traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get across, cut through, cut across; get over; get well, bounce back; overcome, subdue, surmount, master
~ through (v) wrap up, finish off, mop up, polish off, clear up, finish up; while away; come through; reach, get hold of, contact; click, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place
~ to (v) reach, make, progress to; get to; annoy, rag, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil
~ under one's skin (v) get
~ up (v) arise, rise, uprise, stand up; turn out, arise, uprise, rise; raise, lift, elevate, bring up; get up; work up; overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, rig out,
tog up, tog out; organize, organise, prepare, devise, machinate; cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, mug up, swot up, bone
getulio ~ dornelles vargas (n) Vargas
gianbattista ~ bodoni (n) Bodoni
~ (v) chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, tattle, blabber, gabble; gibber
gibbosity ~ (n) bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
gibbousness ~ (n) bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
gideon ~ algernon mantell (n) Mantell
gilded ~ (a) aureate, gilt, gold, golden; meretricious, specious; deluxe, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous; gold, golden
giloacchino ~ antonio rossini (n) Rossini
gimcrack ~ (a) brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
gimmick ~ (n) catch; doodad, doohickey, doojigger, gizmo, gismo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingumabob, thingmabob, thingamajig, thingumajig, thingmajig,
thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget; device, twist
giordano ~ bruno (n) Bruno
gip ~ (v) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, hornswoggle, short-change, con
gismo ~ (n) doodad, doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingumabob, thingmabob, thingamajig, thingumajig, thingmajig,
thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget; appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, widget
gist ~ (n) effect, essence, burden, core; kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty
git ~ (n) rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so
~ (v) give; yield, afford; give; give; pay; hold, throw, have, make; throw; gift, present; yield; pay, devote; render, yield, return, generate; impart, leave, pass on; establish; give; give; sacrifice; pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over; dedicate, consecrate, commit, devote; give; apply; render; grant; move over, give way, ease up, yield; feed; contribute, chip in, kick in; collapse, fall in, cave in, give way, break, founder; give; give; give; afford, open; give; give; yield; give; give; give; give; give; give; give; give; give; give; give
~ away (v) give away; unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, let out; give away; denounce, tell on, betray, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag
~ notice (v) displace, fire, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate; advise, notify, send word, apprise, apprize
~ out (v) emit, give off; distribute, hand out, pass out; fail, run out; fail, go bad, give way, die, conk out, go, break, break down
~ the axe (v) displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate; give the bounce, give the gate
~ up (v) forfeit, throw overboard, waive, forgo, forego; abandon; drop out, fall by the wayside, drop by the wayside, throw in, throw in the towel, quit, chuck up the sponge; discontinue, stop, cease, quit, lay off; spare, part with, dispense with; release, relinquish, resign, free; vacate, resign, renounce; surrender, cede, deliver; surrender; abandon; allow; kick
~-up the ghost (v) die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, drop dead,
pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
~ way (v) move over, give, ease up, yield; collapse, fall in, cave in, give, break, founder; yield; fail, go bad, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
gizmo ~ (n) doodad, doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gismo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingumabob, thingmabob, thingamajig, thingumajig, thingmajig,
thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget; appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, widget
~ (n) glass; drinking glass; glassful; field glass, spyglass; methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, chicken feed, crank, ice, shabu,
trash; looking glass; glass
~ positioning system (n) GPS
gloomy ~ (a) glooming, gloomful, sulky; grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited; blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
~ (v) gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig
out, satiate, scarf out; flood, oversupply
~ (n) spell, tour, turn; Adam, ecstasy, XTC, disco biscuit, cristal, X, hug drug; crack, fling, pass, whirl, offer; go game
~ (v) travel, move, locomote; proceed, move; go away, depart; become, get; go; run; run, pass, lead, extend; proceed; go; go; sound; function, work, operate, run; run low, run short; move, run; survive, last, live, live on, endure, hold up, hold out; go; die, decease, perish, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the
ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it; belong; go; start, get going; move; go; go; blend, blend in; lead; fit; rifle; go; plump; fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, break, break down
~ along (v) play along; continue, go on, proceed, keep; elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by
~ ballistic (v) flip one's lid, blow up, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, blow one's stack,
fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse
~ by (v) elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, slide by, go along; travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, pass; go under; go by
~-cart (n) walker, baby-walker; handcart, pushcart, cart; baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, pushchair, pusher
~ on (v) continue, proceed, go along, keep; happen, hap, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place; advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on; continue, carry on, proceed; come up, come on
~ through (v) experience, see; work through, run through; pass, go across; devour, down, consume; follow through, follow up, follow out, carry out, implement, put through
~ up (v) rise, lift, arise, move up, come up, uprise; rise, climb; approach, near, come on, draw near, draw close, come near; go up; climb, climb up, mount; burn down, burn up; ascend
gob ~ (n) mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, sea dog; gob; trap, cakehole, hole, maw, yap
gobs ~ (n) tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, scads, lashings
~ (a) blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddamn, goddamned, infernal
~ (a) damn; blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamned, infernal
~ (a) blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, infernal
~ (v) victimize, swindle, rook, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con; fiddle, shirk, shrink from
~ (a) good; full; good; estimable, honorable, respectable; beneficial; good; just, upright; adept, expert, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilful; good; dear, near; dependable, safe, secure; right, ripe; well(p); effective, in effect(p), in force(p); good; serious; sound; salutary; honest; undecomposed, unspoiled, unspoilt; good
~-by (n) adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara,
so long
~-bye (n) adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, goodbye, good day, sayonara,
so long
~ day (n) adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, sayonara,
so long
~ deal (n) batch, deal, flock, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
goodby ~ (n) adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara,
so long
goodbye ~ (n) adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, good day, sayonara,
so long
goof ~ (n) fathead, goofball, bozo, jackass, goose, cuckoo, twat, zany; clown, buffoon, goofball, merry andrew
goofball ~ (n) fathead, goof, bozo, jackass, goose, cuckoo, twat, zany; clown, buffoon, goof, merry andrew
goon ~ (n) lout, clod, stumblebum, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump, gawk; hood, hoodlum, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armer
goop ~ (n) sludge, slime, goo, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze; soap, scoop, max, liquid ecstasy, grievous bodily harm, Georgia home boy, easy lay
~ egg (n) nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
~ grass (n) cleavers, clivers, catchweed, spring cleavers, Galium aparine; silverweed, goose-tansy, Potentilla anserina; Texas millet, Panicum Texanum; yardgrass, yard grass, wire grass, Eleusine indica
~ (v) ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig
out, satiate, scarf out
gormandise ~ (v) gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gourmandize, binge, pig out,
satiate, scarf out
gormandize ~ (v) gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out,
satiate, scarf out
~ according to john (n) John
~ according to mark (n) Mark
gossip ~ (v) dish the dirt; chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, jaw, claver, visit
~ (n) chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gabfest, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin-wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie; comment, scuttlebutt; gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
gotthold ~ ephraim lessing (n) Lessing
gourmandize ~ (v) gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, binge, pig out,
satiate, scarf out
gouverneur ~ morris (n) Morris
~ (a) expansive, heroic; august, lordly; deluxe, gilded, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous; fantastic, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous; exalted, elevated, sublime, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied, rarified, idealistic, noble-minded; grand; grand; distinguished, imposing, magisterial
grandness ~ (n) importance; enormousness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness; magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur; impressiveness, magnificence, richness
grass ~ (n) grass; Gunter Grass, Gunter Wilhelm Grass; supergrass; eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage; pot, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane
gravel ~ (v) annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, vex, chafe, devil; gravel; perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, amaze, dumbfound
~ (a) grey, greyish, grayish; grey, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired; grey; grey
~ (a) great; outstanding; great; bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing; capital, majuscule; big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)
~ deal (n) batch, deal, flock, good deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
~ (n) greenness, viridity; park, commons, common; William Green; green; Green River; putting green, putting surface; greens, leafy vegetable; K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, cat valium, super C
~ goddess (n) pot, grass, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane
~ (a) gray, greyish, grayish; gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired; gray; gray
grim ~ (a) inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting; ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick; black, mordant; dour, forbidding; gloomy, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited; blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
~ (v) crunch, cranch, craunch; grate; labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, drudge, dig, moil; grind; mash, crunch, bray, comminute; grind; grind
grinder ~ (n) bomber, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich,
torpedo, wedge, zep; molar; mill, milling machinery; grinder
grip ~ (n) clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, hold; handle, handgrip, hold; bag, traveling bag, travelling bag, suitcase; traction, adhesive friction; grip; grasp; bobby pin, hairgrip
gritty ~ (a) farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, mealy; game, gamy, gamey, mettlesome, spirited, spunky
groovy ~ (a) bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing; swagger
~ (a) gross; gross; porcine; megascopic; arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a),
staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated; crude, earthy, vulgar; crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, rank
~ domestic product (n) GDP
~ national product (n) GNP
~ (n) land, dry land, earth, solid ground, terra firma; reason; earth; footing, basis; ground; background; land, soil; ground; earth; ground; flat coat, primer, priming, primer coat, priming coat, undercoat
~-berry (n) native cranberry, groundberry, cranberry heath, Astroloma humifusum, Styphelia humifusum; teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
~-controlled approach (n) GCA
groundberry ~ (n) native cranberry, ground-berry, cranberry heath, Astroloma humifusum, Styphelia humifusum; teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
groundnut ~ (n) groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean, Apios americana, Apios tuberosa; potato bean, wild bean; peanut, earthnut, goober, goober pea, monkey nut
grow ~ (v) turn; grow; grow; grow; mature, maturate; originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up; raise, farm, produce; develop, produce, get, acquire; develop; grow
~ hormone-releasing factor (n) GHRF
gubbins ~ (n) doodad, doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gizmo, gismo, thingamabob, thingumabob, thingmabob, thingamajig, thingumajig, thingmajig,
thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget
guide ~ (v) steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, channelize, channelise; lead, take, direct, conduct; steer; guide on; run, draw, pass
guile ~ (n) craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness; craftiness, deceitfulness; trickery, chicanery, chicane, wile, shenanigan
~ (n) gun; artillery, heavy weapon, ordnance; gunman; gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter; grease-gun; accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle; gun
gussy ~ up (v) overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog
up, tog out
~ franklin swift (n) Swift
gyp ~ (n) bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, hustle, sting, flimflam
~ (v) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con
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