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 |
|---|---|
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| pontifical | episcopal attire |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| emulate | to strive to equal or excel |
| gusty | the sensation of taste |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |