GRE Word List
BUFFOONERY
foolish or playful behavior or practice
The meaning of the word buffoonery is foolish or playful behavior or practice.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| singular | of or relating to a separate person or thing : individual |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| clown | farmer |
| candor | unreserved, honest, or sincere expression : forthrightness |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| expatiate | to move about freely or at will : wander |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |