glscz

1 flout
to deliberately disobey a law, rule etc, without trying to hide what you are doing:
Some companies flout the rules and employ children as young as seven

2 foment foment revolution/trouble/discord
to cause trouble and make people start fighting each other or opposing the government [= stir up]:
They were accused of fomenting rebellion.

3 forestall
to prevent something from happening or prevent someone from doing something by doing something first:
a measure intended to forestall further attacks

4 frugality
frugal 1 careful to buy only what is necessary [≠ extravagant]:
As children we were taught to be frugal and hard-working.
2 a frugal meal is a small meal of plain food [= simple; ≠ extravagant]:
a frugal breakfast

—frugally adverb
—frugality noun [uncountable]

5 gainsay
to say that something is not true, or to disagree with someone [= contradict]:
No one dared to gainsay him.

6 garrulous
always talking a lot [= talkative]:
Ian isn't normally this garrulous!

—garrulously adverb
—garrulousness noun [uncountable]

7 goad
1 to make someone do something by annoying or encouraging them until they do it [↪ provoke]
goad somebody into (doing) something
Kathy goaded him into telling her what he had done.
goad somebody on
They goaded him on with insults.

2to push animals ahead of you with a sharp stick

8 gouge
to make a deep hole or cut in the surface of something:
He took a knife and gouged a hole in the bottom of the boat.

9 grandiloquent
using words that are too long and formal in order to sound important [= pompous]
—grandiloquence noun [uncountable]

10 gregarious
1 friendly and preferring to be with other people [= sociable; ≠ solitary]
2 technical : gregarious animals tend to live in a group [≠ solitary]

—gregariously adverb
—gregariousness noun [uncountable]