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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vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |
scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
nutrition | the act or process of nourishing or being nourished |
invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |
allude | to make indirect reference |
prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |