Word of the day
farce
1. a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations
“he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces”
2. the genre of farce
“the choreographed confusion of real farce”
3. an absurd event
“the debate turned into a drunken farce”
noun
/fɑrs/
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- might
- mockery
- effort
- force
- joke
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