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 |
|---|---|
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| invert | to reverse in position, order, or relationship |
| amphitheater | an oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open space and used in ancient Rome especially for contests and spectacles |
| infraction | the act of infringing : violation |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| incorporate | to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |