GRE Word List
BUFFOONERY
foolish or playful behavior or practice
The meaning of the word buffoonery is foolish or playful behavior or practice.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abnegation | denial |
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| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| fallible | liable to be erroneous |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| diadem | crown |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
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