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 |
|---|---|
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| junket | trip |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |