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Inside our word gestate, which literally means "to be pregnant with," you can almost glimpse the Latin gerere, "to bear, or to carry."
In a literal sense, when a living thing gestates inside its mother, it's growing and developing, getting ready to be born.
Part of speech:
Pick the somewhat rare, scientific-sounding word "gestate" when you want to compare a developing idea to a developing fetus.
"The record's a good idea, and a good start; the band needs more time to gestate."
Explain the meaning of "gestate" without saying "take shape" or "conceptualize."
Fill in the blanks: "(Something) seems to have been gestating since (some long-ago time)."
Try to spend 20 seconds or more on the game below. Don’t skip straight to the review—first, let your working memory empty out.
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In its figurative sense, the opposite of GESTATE could be
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