GRE Word List
REFECTORY
a dining hall (as in a monastery or college)
The meaning of the word refectory is a dining hall (as in a monastery or college).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| desolate | devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| pitfall | trap |
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| stigma | a mark of shame or discredit : stain |