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Various

"The Illustrated London Reading Book"

_ noble; excellent; illustrious
GLO'SSY, _a._ shiny; smoothly polished
GO'RGEOUS, _a._ fine; magnificent; gaudy; showy
GO'SLING, _s._ a young goose; a catkin on nut-trees and pines
GO'SSAMER, _s._ the web of a male spider
GOUT, _s._ a disease attended with great pain
GO'VERNOR, _s._ one who has the supreme direction; a tutor
GRADA'TION, _s._ regular progress from one degree to another; order;
arrangement
GRA'DUALLY, _ad._ by degrees; step by step
GRA'NDEUR, _s._ splendour of appearance; magnificence
GRANGE, _s._ a farm
GRATIFICA'TION, _s._ pleasure; something gratifying
GRA'TITUDE, _s._ duty to benefactors; desire to return benefits
GRA'VITY, _s._ weight; tendency to the centre; seriousness; solemnity
GROTE'SQUE, _a._ distorted of figure; unnatural
GUARD, _s._ part of the hilt of a sword; a man or body of men whose
business is to watch
GUIDE, _s._ director; regulator

HABITATION, _s._ place of abode; dwelling
HABI'TUALLY, _ad._ customarily; by habit
HA'GGARD, _a._ deformed; ugly
HARA'NGUE, _v.n._ make a speech
HA'RMONIZE, _v.a._ to adjust in fit proportion
HARPO'ON, _s._ a bearded dart, with a line fastened to the handle, with
which whales are struck and caught
HA'ZARDOUS, _a.


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