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gifted adj. talented, able, skilled, capable, skilful, outstanding,<br />

excellent, superior, superb, brilliant, expert, master,<br />

masterful, masterly, virtuoso, first-class, first-rate,<br />

top-drawer, top-flight, good, Colloq top-notch, ace,<br />

crackerjack, crack: Grants are available for gifted, indigent<br />

artists.<br />

gigantic adj. big, large, huge, enormous, massive, giant, colossal,<br />

immense, mammoth, tremendous, stupendous, towering, staggering,<br />

vast, titanic, gargantuan, elephantine, Cyclopean, Herculean,<br />

Brobdingnagian; king-size, extra-large, Colloq jumbo, walloping,<br />

whopping, thumping, thundering, strapping, super-duper, US<br />

humongous: <strong>The</strong> gigantic tower, reaching to the heavens,<br />

appeared before us.<br />

giggle v. 1 titter, snicker, snigger, chuckle, laugh, chortle, cackle,<br />

twitter: Stop that giggling at the rear <strong>of</strong> the classroom!<br />

--n. 2 titter, snicker, snigger, chuckle, laugh, chortle,<br />

cackle, twitter: Did I hear a giggle? 3 joke, prank, laugh:<br />

Just for a giggle, we tied his shoelaces together.<br />

gimmick n. 1 device, strategy, stratagem, ploy, trick, ruse, wile,<br />

subterfuge, manoeuvre, artifice, deception, trap, snare, US<br />

hook, Colloq dodge: We need some sort <strong>of</strong> gimmick to attract<br />

buyers. 2 device, contrivance, gadget, invention, Colloq<br />

contraption, widget, thingumbob or thingumabob or thingamabob,<br />

thingumajig or thingamajig or thingummy, whatchamacallit,<br />

what's-its-name, Brit doodah, US doohickey, doodad, hickey,<br />

whosis, whatsis, dingus, Rube Goldberg (invention), Chiefly US<br />

and Canadian gismo or gizmo: He uses some kind <strong>of</strong> gimmick to<br />

break into cars.<br />

gingerly adv. 1 warily, cautiously, charily, carefully, delicately,<br />

fastidious, daintily, squeamishly, tentatively, nervously,<br />

cannily, circumspectly, guardedly, watchfully, timidly,<br />

timorously, shyly: Handle that nitroglycerine very gingerly.<br />

--adj. 2 wary, cautious, chary, careful, fastidious, delicate,<br />

dainty, squeamish, tentative, nervous, canny, circumspect,<br />

guarded, watchful, timid, timorous, shy: Note the gingerly way<br />

he handles the nitroglycerine.

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