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 |
|---|---|
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |
| levee | a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed |
| multiform | having many forms or appearances |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| gestate | to carry in the uterus during pregnancy |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
| venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |