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- gage/gauge: a gage is a token of defiance, such as a pledge of combat or something deposited assuring performance; a gauge is a measuring device or a term designating the size of shotguns
- gamut/gantlet/gauntlet: gamut is a complete range or a scale of notes; gantlet is a form of gauntlet, meaning ordeal; gauntlet is a glove, often used in the sense of issuing a challenge, and is the preferred spelling for an ordeal "to be run"
- genocide: An understandably emotional definition in danger of overuse, genocide is defined in the United Nations' 1948 Genocide Convention as: killing or harming people “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” New Yorker note on use of the word "genocide"
- gibe/jibe: a gibe is a pointed slur or tease; jibe means to coincide: happen together
- gourmet/gourmand: a gourmet is an expert appreciator of the fine points of food; a gourmand overindulges in fine food
- government/junta/regime/administration: a government is an operating system of political administration; a junta is a council or group that may rule after a coup; regime is synonymous with "political system" and does not define "government"; as a noun in this sense, administration is the group comprising the executive officials of a government
- grisly/grizzly/grizzled: grisly describes something horrible or dreadful; grizzly means greyish and describes a type of bear; human gray hair (typically of men) is described as grizzled
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