In Latin a gerund is a spoken noun that speaks of an incomplete or general action.
In English, similar to the Latin, it is also a noun (usually ending in 'ing') that acts like a verb and can have adverb modifiers and qualifiers to describe objects and action.
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Gerund.
A noun. It is derived from the verb "mark", of which it is the plural gerund.
The noun forms for the verb to subside are subsidence and the gerund, subsiding.
"Exaggerating" is a verb. It is the gerund form of the verb "to exaggerate".
It is a noun. The word "reading" here is a gerund acting as a compound subject with the gerund "talking."