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salute
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cringe
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sneer
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leer
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pause
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gape
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frown
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grin
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smirk
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bristle
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fidget
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pace
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yawn
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All good ones, thanks. I decided not to use high-five because it's too interactive in nature... these are all meant to be things you can do from across the room, without an action on behalf of the "receiver."
If you like salute, how about high five and thumbs up? If you hyphenate them, they're only one word...
cringe, cower, salute?
Pause I'll take. I'm gonna pass on the nonverbals that make a sound, including belch. I like it, but the list would get kind of ridiculous if I included every non-speech noise people can make. :-)
What about belch?
leer, sneer?
Hmmm. Pause? It doesn't work in your sentence, but it does work with "Instead of saying what he meant, uselessness (BLANKED) meaningfully."
Wow. I totally missed that and read them all as nouns. Whoops!
They're actually meant to be verbs. Try using them in the following sentence:
"If you want to communicate to another person without speaking, you can (BLANK) at him/her."
roll your eyes is a phrase, but what about eye-rolling? or if you want to keep it to nouns rather than participles... eye-roll?
Thank ye.
bristle, smirk?
Thanks, trivet! Gesture doesn't count because, for the most part, these are all gestures. :-)
glare, fidget, twiddle? Does gesture count?
All excellent. I keep thinking of good multi-word phrases like stare at your feet and play with your hair but I want to keep this list to simple verbs. I'm still trying to decide if I want to use roll your eyes but I think that one's just as lengthy.
Great list idea! How about stare or yawn? Pace, maybe?