GRE Word List

CLOISTER

a monastic establishment

The meaning of the word cloister is a monastic establishment.

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WordMeaning
alliterationthe repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs)
solemnityformal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event
puerilejuvenile
legacya gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest
mincingaffectedly dainty or delicate
antlerone of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family
crabbedmarked by a forbidding moroseness
smughighly self-satisfied
reinstateto place again (as in possession or in a former position)
humusa brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic