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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| ascribe | to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author : to say or think that (something) is caused by, comes from, or is associated with a particular person or thing |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| revulsion | a strong pulling or drawing away : withdrawal |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
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| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |