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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benefit | something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being : advantage |
taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
reprise | a musical repetition: |
oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
blunt | having an edge or point that is not sharp |
gratuity | something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service |
draft | the act of drawing or pulling in a net |
outlandish | of or relating to another country : foreign |
poise | balance |