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gauntlet |
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a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim |
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gauntlet |
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a glove with long sleeve |
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gauntlet |
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a glove of armored leather |
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gauntlet |
Noun
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to offer or accept a challenge |
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gantlet |
Noun
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a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim |
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gantlet |
Noun
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the convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place |
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gantlet |
Noun
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a glove with long sleeve |
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gantlet |
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a glove of armored leather |
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gantlet |
Noun
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to offer or accept a challenge |
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gang fight |
Noun
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a fight between rival gangs of adolescents |
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glorification |
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the act of glorifying (as in worship) |
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glorification |
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a portrayal of something as ideal |
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glorification |
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a state of high honor |
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general verdict |
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an ordinary verdict declaring which party prevails without any special findings of fact |
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group participation |
Noun
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participation by all members of a group |
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go-slow |
Noun
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a form of protest by workers in which they deliberately slow down in order to cause problem from their employers |
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getting even |
Noun
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a reciprocal group action |
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genocide |
Noun
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systematic killing of a racial or cultural group |
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good turn |
Noun
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a favor for someone |
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gallantry |
Noun
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polite attentiveness to women |
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gallantry |
Noun
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the qualities of a hero or heroine |
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gallantry |
Noun
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courtesy towards women |
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grass bacillus |
Noun
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a species of bacillus found in soil and decomposing organic matter |
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gonococcus |
Noun
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the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea |
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golden algae |
Noun
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algae having the pigments chlorophyll and carotene and xanthophyll |
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globigerina |
Noun
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marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes |
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germ |
Noun
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a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium) |
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germ |
Noun
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a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism |
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germ |
Noun
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anything that provides inspiration for later work |
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gliding bacteria |
Noun
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bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime |
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golden shiner |
Noun
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shiner of eastern North America having golden glints |
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giardia |
Noun
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a suspected cause of diarrhea in humans |
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gulfweed |
Noun
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brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea |
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gregarine |
Noun
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vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates |
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green algae |
Noun
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algae that are clear green in color |
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guppy |
Noun
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small freshwater fish of South America and the West Indies |
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gudgeon |
Noun
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small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers |
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gudgeon |
Noun
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small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker |
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goldfish |
Noun
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small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes |
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germinal disc |
Noun
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a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula |
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germinal area |
Noun
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a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula |
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gastrula |
Noun
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double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula |
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genus gasterosteus |
Noun
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type genus of the family Gasterosteidae |
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germ layer |
Noun
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(embryology) any of the 3 layers of cells differentiated in embryos following gastrulation |
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guitarfish |
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primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body |
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great white shark |
Noun
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large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas |
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gnathostome |
Noun
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a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws |
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goldfinch |
Noun
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small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings |
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goldfinch |
Noun
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American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer |
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giant moa |
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the largest moa |