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 |
|---|---|
| remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| grunt | to utter a grunt |
| convention | agreement |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |