GRE Word List
CLOISTER
a monastic establishment
The meaning of the word cloister is a monastic establishment.
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|---|---|
| leeway | an allowable margin of freedom or variation : tolerance |
| calculated | apt |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| disarray | a lack of order or sequence : confusion |
| mesmerize | to subject to mesmerism |
| carnage | the flesh of slain animals or humans |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| lethal | of, relating to, or causing death |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| grotto | cave |