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The moderator turned her microphone off, leaving us to see her gesticulations, but not hear her words.gesticulations = gestures (hand or body movements) made while speaking or to express something
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I couldn't hear what they were saying or see their faces, but by their gesticulations, I'm sure they were angry at each other.gesticulations = hand or body movements made while speaking
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Muttering and gesticulating, Mr. Crouch appeared to be talking to someone that he alone could see. (source)gesticulating = making gestures (hand or body movements) while speaking or to express something
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She was tangential with her topics, and her hands gesticulated wildly, flying up with a nervousness that wasn't like her at all. (source)gesticulated = made gestures
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"Well, the littluns are—" He gesticulated, sought for a word. (source)gesticulated = made a gesture (hand or body movement)
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This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. (source)gesticulated = made gestures (hand or body movements)
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...the good Samaritan would find himself besieged, hemmed in by ragged apparitions spraying him with tubercular saliva; by children covered with oozing sores who were pushed into his path, by gesticulating stumps of arms, blinded eyes, toothless, stinking open mouths, all begging for mercy at this, the last moment of their lives, (source)gesticulating = making gestures
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The plump fingers of the child gesticulated through the grille. (source)gesticulated = moved to express something
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Signals and gesticulations on the part of the boss. (source)gesticulations = gestures (hand or body movements) made to express somethingstandard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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He laughed and threw the bottle upwards with a gesticulation I did not understand. (source)gesticulation = hand or body movementstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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The Italian removed his toothpick to gesticulate with it freely. (source)gesticulate = make gestures (hand movements) while speaking
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She gesticulates wildly, arms flailing. (source)gesticulates = makes gestures (hand or body movements)
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There were many Jews, stout ladies in tight satin dresses and diamonds, little corpulent men with a gesticulative manner.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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He could see the high cab, even the gesticulating figure of the driver behind the single long wiper blade. (source)gesticulating = making gestures (hand or body movements)
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She was wedged between a small old woman with tight-set lips and a fat matron, without a hat, who was talking shrilly and gesticulated all the time. (source)gesticulated = made gestures (hand or body movements) while speaking
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It is commonly supposed that they communicated by sounds and tentacular gesticulations; (source)gesticulations = movements
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