GRE Word List
CLOISTER
a monastic establishment
The meaning of the word cloister is a monastic establishment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| solemnity | formal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event |
| puerile | juvenile |
| legacy | a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| reinstate | to place again (as in possession or in a former position) |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |