GRE Word List
CLOISTER
a monastic establishment
The meaning of the word cloister is a monastic establishment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| verge | brink |
| gist | essence; main point; substance |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| guileless | innocent |
| pulmonary | of, relating to, affecting, or occurring in the lungs |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |