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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
| 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 |
| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| stigma | a mark of shame or discredit : stain |
| pallet | a straw-filled tick or mattress |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| forlorn | bereft |
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |