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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)
The elderly politician was elected despite his many gaffes
A laborer on a film set
A machine used for making yarn from wool
An embarassing error
Frost crystals
2. Gaudy (adjective)
Liberace was known for his gaudy clothing
Having a horrible odor
Having a large, flabby chin
Joyful; exuberant
Overly showy or ornamented
3. Gaunt (adjective)
The fashion model was gaunt with pointy elbows
Decorated with bright and lively colors
Having an excess of wealth
Strong in the face of adversity
Thin, emaciated, bony
4. Genuflect (verb)
The king genuflected before the pope and received his blessing
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
5. Gesticulate (verb)
The cyclist gesticulated and shouted at the BMW as it zoomed closely by
To become enrolled in a college or university
To dance wildly
To drool
To express oneself by making gestures
6. Genteel (adjective)
The genteel old man brought out a silk hankerchief and handed it to the crying girl
Elegant, aristocratic
Given to excessive risk taking, especially in gambling
Hard like steel
Having a sour, acidic taste
7. Glean (verb)
She gleaned scraps of information from overheard conversation
To bind a book
To emit a soft, glowing light
To gather small bits of grain left by reapers
To listen with reverence
8. Germane (adjective)
Sir, your colonoscopy is NOT germane to this discussion!
Having an unusually cold and icy demeanor
Metallic
Related to the subject at hand
Swift and lively (especially as it relates to music)
9. Glutton (noun)
The glutton continued to gorge himself on the turkey leg
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
10. Gossamer (noun)
Light showed through the gossamer fabric
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
11. Graft (noun)
Graft and organized crime go hand in hand
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
12. Guile (noun)
To win, a smaller fighter must use guile
Cunning; artful deception
Having the ability to float
The act of inscribing symbols on metal or stone
The lack of stress or anxiety
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)
The TV host had a glib comeback for every argument
Covered with filth or soot
Eloquent but insincere
Existing for a short duration only
Jolly
15. Grandiloquent (adjective)
The grandiloquent butler scoffed at the shabbily-dressed youths
Extremely generous
Having a smooth, mirror-like surface
Puffed up with vanity
Unable to be perceived
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29 Comments
buck1017
+20
Level 78
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
+4
Level 70
Apr 17, 2024
It's a Yankism.
Neodymium
+1
Level 62
May 11, 2024
is that a problem
afmarsha
+4
Level 65
May 12, 2024
We never use it that way and that's not one of the Oxford or Webster definitions. Very curious what OP's source was
toowise
+14
Level 79
Apr 17, 2024
It's used in the UK to mean hard work, one who works hard is called a "grafter".
overtired
+2
Level 86
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
+2
Level 70
Apr 19, 2024
I've definitely heard it referring to corruption etc in the UK. Listen to political commentators!
Morpioniste
+5
Level 67
May 11, 2024
Really? Not heard it at all in that context in UK, only hard work and horticulture
richiesyxx
+2
Level 73
May 12, 2024
Read the Private Eye, they always refer to corruption as ‘graft.’
VanilleFramboise
+4
Level 76
Apr 17, 2024
Same, I was thinking of gardening when you graft things onto rootstock.
rjhanna
+2
Level 68
Apr 17, 2024
great quiz! noticed one typo though: in question 13, you're missing a "t" in "nobility".
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Apr 17, 2024
Fixed
Fianchetto
+5
Level 76
Apr 17, 2024
It must be fun coming up with the wrong answers for these.
thebigdp
+2
Level 89
Apr 17, 2024
Rat....I was thinking gaffer when I read gaffe. So of course I gave the wrong answer. Sigh
orange3472
+2
Level 69
May 11, 2024
what a gaffe lol
tschutzer
+14
Level 92
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.
EMR77
+1
Level 58
May 11, 2024
Agreed.
Gumbledalf
+1
Level 74
May 11, 2024
Yes, I knew the definition as used in the example, but not the one in the answer and thus chose wrongly. Please change one of them!
triviaolivia
+2
Level 62
May 11, 2024
I liked that the definition precisely because it was not the common usage! I guessed correctly because it's basically the same process - one in the physical world, the other in the mental world. Happy to learn something and have a little twist in it
loganite
+1
Level 90
Apr 19, 2024
Where did you get the post-quiz definition for the first question, Joe Biden's Wikipedia page?! ;)
richiesyxx
+1
Level 73
May 12, 2024
Don’t be silly. It was the late Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip’s Wikipedia page. If you’re not familiar, Google ‘gaffes of Prince Philip,’ and prepare yourself for a masterclass.
Juliealessa
+1
Level 24
May 11, 2024
My native language is French. I didn't know lots of those words. But it occurs lots of them were existing in French as not commonly used words.
HyddenRizz
+1
Level 67
Aug 26, 2024
I got "Glean" correct thanks to Les Glaneurs et Les Glaneuses
DawnX
+1
Level 54
May 11, 2024
how do people get these correct?! i am positively surprised of myself that i got 4/15 right
jmellor13
+2
Level 67
May 11, 2024
I used to be an SAT tutor. Got them all except, fittingly, "gaffe," only because I read it too quickly and confused it with "gaffer" and didn't even read the other choices (which I'm sure is what the quizmaker intended). An embarrassing error indeed.
KiloNova
+1
Level 55
May 11, 2024
I actually knew quite a lot of these...hmm....
kaenchuli
+4
Level 20
May 12, 2024
Sir, your colonoscopy is NOT germane to this discussion!
TurkeyCookTime
+1
Level 81
May 24, 2024
You use different definitions of "glean" for the answer and the example sentence, maybe change one of them?
Hedgehog76
+1
Level 69
May 29, 2024
As a non-native speaker, I'm always proud when I get points on a language related quiz - not here, unfortunately. This was hard! Only knew two of them and got three more on educated guesses: 5/15 - no points.
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