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 |
|---|---|
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
| unassuming | not assuming : modest |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |