glimmer V. /闪烁/shine erratically; twinkle. In the darkness of the cavern, the glowworms hanging from the cavern roof glimmered like distant stars,
gloat V. /垂涎;幸灾乐祸，洋洋得意/express evil satisfaction; view malevolently. As you gloat over your ill-gotten wealth, do you think of the many victims you have defrauded?
glossary N. /词汇表/brief explanation of words used in the text. I have found the glossary in this book very useful; it has eliminated many trips to the dictionary.
gloss over V. /掩盖/explain away. No matter how hard he tried to talk around the issue, President Bush could not
gloss over the fact that he had raised taxes after all.
glossy ADJ. /光滑有光泽的/smooth and shining. I want this photograph printed on glossy paper, not matte.
glower V. /瞪着，愤怒的看着/scowl. The angry boy glowered at his father.
glut V. /充斥;过量/overstock; fill to excess. The many manufacturers glutted the market and could not find purchasers
for the excess articles they had produced. also N.
glutton N. /暴饮暴食者，饭桶/someone who eats too much. When Mother saw that Bobby had eaten all the cookies, she called him a little glutton. gluttonous, ADJ.
gnarled ADJ. /扭曲/twisted. The gnarled oak tree had been a landmark for years and was mentioned in several deeds. gnome N. /地精;小矮人;土地公公/dwarf; underground spirit. In medieval mythology, gnomes were the special guardians
and inhabitants of subterranean mines.
goad V. /刺激;激励;驱策/urge on. He was goaded by his friends until he yielded to their wishes. also N.
gorge N. /峡谷/small, steep-walled canyon. The white-water rafting guide warned us about the rapids farther downstream, where the river cut through a narrow gorge.
gorge V. /狼吞虎咽/stuff oneself. The gluttonous guest gorged himself with food as though he had not eaten for days. gory ADJ. /血腥的/bloody. The audience shuddered as they listened to the details of the gory massacre.
gouge V. /挖出;撕下/tear out. In that fight, all the rules were forgotten; the adversaries bit, kicked, and tried to gouge each other's eyes out.
gourmand N. /老饕/epicure; person who takes excessive pleasure in food and drink. Gourmands lack self-restraint; if they enjoy a particular cuisine, they eat far too much of it.
gourmet N. /品尝家;美食比赛的评委/connoisseur of food and drink. The gourmet stated that this was the best onion soup she had ever tasted.
graduated ADJ. /分级;排序/arranged by degrees (of height, difficulty, etc.). Margaret loved her graduated set of Russian hollow wooden dolls; she spent hours happily putting the smaller dolls into their larger counterparts.
graft N. /移植;移植物;嫁接/piece of transplanted tissue; portion of plant inserted in another plant. After the fire, Greg required skin grafts to replace the badly damaged areas on his forearms. also V.
grandeur N. /庄严，伟大，威严/impressiveness; stateliness; majesty. No matter how often he hiked through the mountains, David never failed to be struck by the grandeur of the Sierra Nevada range.
grandiloquent ADJ. /语言夸张的;词藻浮华的/pompous; bombastic; using highsounding language. The politician could never speak simply; she was always grandiloquent.
grandiose ADJ. /自命不凡;堂皇;夸张的/pretentious; high-flown; ridiculously exaggerated; impressive. The aged matinee idol still had grandiose notions of his supposed importance in the theatrical world.
granulate V. /粒化/form into grains. Sugar that has been granulated dissolves more readily than lump sugar. granule, N.
graphic ADJ. /图像的;图画的/pertaining to the art of delineating; vividly described. I was particularly impressed by the graphic presentation of the storm.
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