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noun

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Good / Happy

glee - Great delight

Christmas morning is a time of glee for young children as they open their presents.

adjective

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Bad / Strange

garish - Clothing that is unusually different, bright and showy

Many garish outfits today look like they were colored with every crayon in the box.

adjective

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Good / Happy

giddy - Having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall or stagger; dizzy

Karen was so giddy with excitement when she heard that Mommy was coming home with a new baby brother, that she almost fell off her feet.

verb

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Good / Happy

giggle - Laugh lightly in a nervous, affected, or silly manner

Carrie giggled when she heard her favorite knock-knock joke.

adjective

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Good / Exciting

galore - In abundance

After receiving her $5 allowance, Cynthia wanted to spend it at the store where there was candy galore.

verb

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Other / Body

gash - Make a gash in; cut deeply

The ginsu knife was so sharp that it could gash Jesse's skin if he wasn't careful.

adjective

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Bad / Old

fusty - Smelling stale, damp, or stuffy

The old library had plenty of books but unfortunately it had a fusty smell that indicated its age.

verb

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Good / Friendly

gab - Talk, typically at length, about trivial matters

Having no use for small talk, Robert would roll his eyes as soon as the people around him would gab endlessly.

adjective

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Other / Sound

glib - (of words or the person speaking them) fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow

Barry was a glib person who pretended to be interested in other people even though he didn't really care about them.

adjective

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Bad / Strange

gaudy - Extravagantly bright or showy, typically so as to be tasteless

The solid-gold interior of Larry's Ferrari was a gaudy touch that he loved, but many others felt it reflected an extreme sense of bad taste

verb

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Other / Light

glaze - Overlay or cover (food, fabric, etc.) with a smooth, shiny coating or finish

Cinnamon coating was glazed onto the rolls in order to give it that extra appeal.

verb

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Good / Busy

gallivant - To move from one place to another in the pursuit of pleasure or entertainment

After he graduated high school, Damian decided to gallivant across Europe for a whole year instead of heading straight to college.