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).
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| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| dormant | represented on a coat of arms in a lying position with the head on the forepaws |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| resort | one that affords aid or refuge : resource |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| belittle | to speak slightingly of : disparage |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| parish | the ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor |
| passe | past one's prime |