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 |
|---|---|
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| parry | to ward off a weapon or blow |
| belabor | to attack verbally |
| fester | to generate pus |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| reconcile | to restore to friendship or harmony |
| relent | to become less severe, harsh, or strict usually from reasons of humanity |
| dawdle | to spend time idly |