GRE Word List
BUFFOON
a ludicrous figure : clown
The meaning of the word buffoon is a ludicrous figure : clown.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| induce | to move by persuasion or influence |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| fiend | devil |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |