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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singularof or relating to a separate person or thing : individual
etymologythe 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
clownfarmer
candorunreserved, honest, or sincere expression : forthrightness
inscrutablenot readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious
shudderto tremble convulsively : shiver
expatiateto move about freely or at will : wander
psychosisa serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions
digressionthe 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
inarticulateincapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings