Everyday Barron's Wordlist 1926-1950
gawk V. stare foolishly; look in open-mouthed awe gazette N. official periodical publication; newspaper genealogy N. record of descent; lineage; ancestry; study of ancestry generality N. vague statement; general statement which is not detailed; quality of being general; greater part; most; Ex. generality of people generate V. cause; produce; create generic adj. characteristic of an entire class or species; of a genus genus N. division of animals or plants, below a family and above a species genesis N. beginning; origin geniality N. cheerfulness; kindliness; sympathy; ADJ. genial: cheerful and good-tempered genre N. particular variety of art or literature genteel well-bred; elegant; striving to convey an appearance of refinement; Ex. genteel poverty gentility those of gentle birth; high social class; refinement; quality of being genteel breed V. produce young; rear; bring up; produce (an undesirable condition); N: kind or sort of animal or plant crossbreed V. hybridize; N: hybrid; CF. interbreed; CF. inbreed well-bred adj. of good upbringing; well-mannered and refined gentry N. people of standing(rank or position); people of good family or high social position; class of people just below nobility gentle Adj. kindly; soft; mild; of good family genuflect V. bend the knee as in worship germane adj. pertinent; bearing upon(having connection with) the case at hand; appropriate germinal adj. pertaining to a germ; creative; Ex. germinal idea germ N. earliest form of an organism; seed or bud; something that may develop into something larger or more important; microbe germinate V. cause to sprout; sprout sprout V. begin to grow; give off shoots or buds; N: new growth on a plant; shoot shoot N. new growth from a plant gerontocracy N. government ruled by old people gerontology N. study of the sociological phenomena associated with old age geriatrics N. medical treatment and care of old age gerrymander change voting district lines in order to favor a political party; N. CF. Elbridge Gerry + (sala)mander
