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Greek myth A reference to the polytheistic religion of ancient Greek society, which consisted of complex and detailed stories with multiple gods and other heroic figures as main… |
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Greersen's Case Studies in Navajo Ethnographic Aberrations In Tony Hillerman's 1970 Navajo detective novel THE BLESSING WAY, Greersen is a fictional anthropologist who wrote about skinwalkers and Navajo witchcraft. In the… |
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grid An organizational schema comprised of a network of interconnecting lines that create integrated series of squares. |
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grimace A facial expression indicating disgust, wry irony, displeasure, pain, or some level of emotional or physical discomfort. |
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ground sloth Sloths are two- or three-toed mammals related to anteaters. Sloths today tend to be arboreal, living in trees above the forest floor, and are very slow moving.… |
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Guatemala Officially titled the Republic of Guatemala, this Central American country is bounded by Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Belize. The origin of the name Guatemala… |
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guitar A six-stringed, wood-bodied instrument with a fretted neck. The basic guitar, which emerged from the confluence of Islamic and Greco-Roman musical traditions in the… |
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Gulf Station Gulf Oil was a U.S. oil company founded in 1907 and based in Port Arthur, Texas. The company was owned by the Mellon family until 1985, when it was subsumed under… |
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gully A long and wide trench that cuts into soft rock or sediment. Gullies normally occur in areas where the ground surface has been exposed to fire, the effects of climate… |
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Gum-Tooth Woman In Navajo folklore, Gum-Tooth Woman (sometimes known as Tooth-Gum Woman) appears to be a humorously indecent, bawdy character whose role in tales is to make sexual… |
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guttural A term referring to a speech sound that is generated in the throat. English has very few such throat-originated articulations, while other languages, like Arabic,… |