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Word List 31
Baron's Critical Reading Workbook for the SAT
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12th Grade
08/20/2006

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garrulous
Ex. My Uncle Henry can out-talk any three people I know. He is the most garrulous person in Cayuga County.
Definition
loquacious; wordy; talkative
Term
genre
Ex. Both a short-story writer and a poet, Langston Hughes proved himself equally skilled in either genre.
Definition
particular variety of art or literature
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germane
Ex. The judge would not allow the testimony to be heared by the jury because it was not germane to the case.
Definition
pertinent; bearing upon the case at hand
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glacial
Ex. Never a warm person, John, when offended, could seem positively glacial.
Definition
like a glacier; extremely cold
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glib
Ex. Keeping up a steady patter to entertain his customers, the kitchen gadget salesman was a glib speaker, never at a lost for a word.
Definition
fluent; facile; slick
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glutton
Ex. Who is the glutton who ate up all the chocolate chip cookies I made for dessert?
Definition
someone who eats too much; greedy person
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gorge
Ex. The white-water rafting guide warned us about the rapids farther downstream, where the river cut through a narrow gorge.
Definition
small, steep-walled canyon
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grandiose
Ex. The aged matinee idol still had grandiose notions of his supposed importance in the theatrical world.
Definition
pretentious; high-flown; ridiculously exaggerated; impressive
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gratify
Ex. Amy's success in her new job gratified her parents.
Definition
please
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gratuitous
Ex. Who asked you to comment? We don't need any gratuitous criticism from someone who has no business dissing us.
Definition
given freely, unwarranted; unprovoked
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