gest
This ROOT-WORD is GEST which means CARRY & BEAR. It comes from the Latin gerere & gestus. This ROOT will enable you to digest such words as gestative, gestatorial, gesticulate and all other words with the ROOT-GEST.
1. Gestant : GEST ant (jes’ tant) adj.
Pregnant
2. Gestate : GEST ate (jes’ tate) v.
To carry during pregnancy
3. Gestation : GEST ation (je stay’ shun) n.
The period of pregnancy
4. Gestational : GEST ational (je stay’ shun al) adj.
Relating to gestation
5. Gestative : GEST ational (je stay’ shun al) adj.
Relating to gestation
6. Gestatory : GEST atory (jes’ ta to ri) adj.
Pertaining to carrying as a form of exercise
7. Gestatorial : GEST atorial (jest a toe’ ri al) adj.
Relating to the chair on which the Pope is carried on ceremonial occasions
8. Gestatorium : GEST atorium (jest a toe’ ri um) n.
A portable shrine
9. Gested : GEST ed (jes’ ted) adj.
Embellished with gestures and bodily movements
10. Gestic : GEST ic (jes’ tik) adj.
Consisting of gestures or bodily movements
11. Gesticulate : GEST iculate (je stik’ yu late) v.
Indicate by gestures when speaking
12. Gesticular : GEST icular (jes tik’ yu lar) adj.
Full of sudden motion
13. Gesticulation : GEST iculation (jes tik yu lay’ shun) n.
The act of making gestures
14. Gesture : GEST ure (jes’ chur) n.
The use of motions of the body as a mode of expression
15. Congest : con GEST (kon jest’) v.
To overcrowd; clog
16. Congestion : con GEST ion (kon jes’ chun) n.
An overcrowded state; as, congestion
17. Congestive : con GEST ive (kon jes’ tiv) adj.
Causing congestion
18. Digest : di GEST (die jest’) v.
To think over and arrange methodically in the mind
19. Digestion : di GEST ion (die jes’ chun) n.
The process by which food is made useful to the body
20. Suggestion : sug GEST ion (su jes’ chun) n.
The mental process by which one thought leads to another
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