GRE Word List
CLOISTER
a monastic establishment
The meaning of the word cloister is a monastic establishment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| savant | a person of learning |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| studious | assiduous in the pursuit of learning |
| carat | a unit of fineness for gold equal to ¹/₂₄ part of pure gold in an alloy |