GRE Word List
GESTICULATION
the act of making gestures
The meaning of the word gesticulation is the act of making gestures.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| compound | something formed by a union of elements or parts |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| reverie | daydream |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
| transport | to transfer or convey from one place to another |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |