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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…
	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…
	grid An organizational schema comprised of a network of interconnecting lines that create integrated series of squares.
	grimace A facial expression indicating disgust, wry irony, displeasure, pain, or some level of emotional or physical discomfort.
	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.…
	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…
	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…
	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…
	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…
	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…
	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…