GRE Word List
CLOISTER
a monastic establishment
The meaning of the word cloister is a monastic establishment.
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|---|---|
| urge | to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| deplore | to feel or express grief for |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| dignitary | one who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| overt | open to view : manifest |