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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| clot | a portion of a substance adhering together in a thick nondescript mass (as of clay or gum) |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| indissoluble | not dissoluble |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent |
| palatial | of, relating to, or being a palace |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
