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 |
|---|---|
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| dissent | to withhold assent or approval |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| surpass | to become better, greater, or stronger than : exceed |
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