GRE Word List
CLOISTER
a monastic establishment
The meaning of the word cloister is a monastic establishment.
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| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| peccadillo | a slight offense |
| consort | associate |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| effectuate | to cause or bring about (something) : to put (something) into effect or operation : effect |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
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