Gift. Bequest, benefaction, donation, boon, grant, present, largess, bribe, bounty, gratuity; endowment, talent, genius, faculty, power, capacity, capability, ability, turn, forte; donation, douceur, offering, alms, allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, dower, legacy, demise.

Ant. Reservation, refusal, purchase; inanity, stupidity, forfeit, penalty, fine, surrender; earnings, wages, remuneration, compensation; reward, guerdon.

Gigantic. Vast, huge, colossal, enormous, giant, prodigious, Herculean, Cyclopean, immense, tremendous.

Ant. Puny, feeble, dwarfish, petty, insignificant, pigmy.

Girdle. Gird, bind round; surround, encircle, encompass, enclose, embrace, shut in; belt, hem, environ, engirdle, begird.

Ant. Disclose, open, disencircle, expand, ungird, disengirdle.

Girl. Damsel, lass, lassie, miss, maiden, maid, virgin, young unmarried woman.

Gist. Essence, pith, core, marrow, substance, kernel, main point, force, ground, foundation.

Ant. Surplusage, additament, redundancy, environment; accessories; clothing, garb; excess, overplus.

Give. Deliver, bestow, supply, grant, cede, confer, communicate, impart, furnish; produce, yield, surrender, concede, present, afford, spare, accommodate with; pay, exchange; permit, allow, vouchsafe, deign; utter, pronounce, render; occasion, cause; devote, apply, addict, give up; sink, bend; retreat, give way, recede, retire.