Up Your Score SAT, 2018-2019 Edition The Underground Guide to Outsmarting The Test

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gesticulation


gesture; signal
Note: Somehow gesticulation seems as though it ought to have obscene
connotations, and we would certainly tell you if it did, but it doesn’t. You can
make up an obscene mnemonic device, if that helps.
Igor gesticulated for Dick to hurry and enter the lab, saying, “Yes, Dick, you’re
late for your brain transplant.”


gibberish


rapid, incomprehensible, or nonsensical speaking; drivel
The Lewis Carroll poem “Jabberwocky,” which begins “’Twas brillig, and the
slithy toves . . . ,” is written in gibberish.


grandiose


excessively impressive; grand
Jay Leno has a grandiose chin.

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