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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| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| trample | tramp |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| manifesto | a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |