GRE Word List
GESTICULATION
the act of making gestures
The meaning of the word gesticulation is the act of making gestures.
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intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
devious | wandering |
isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
frolic | full of fun : merry |
forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
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