GRE Word List
CLOISTER
a monastic establishment
The meaning of the word cloister is a monastic establishment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| zephyr | a breeze from the west |