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 |
|---|---|
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| statutory | of or relating to statutes |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| nurse | a person who cares for the sick or infirm |