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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Religious people: monks & nuns
abbess
abbey
abbot
anchorite
ascetic
benedictine
Franciscan
friar
friary
habit
hermit
lay brother
monastic
monastically
monasticism
mother
novice
priory
Trappist monk
veil

Examples from literature

In Thailand, Buddhist monks built a whole religious building from green and brown bottles. 

monk | American Dictionary

monk
noun[ C ]
us/mʌŋk/
a man who is a member of a group of religious men who live a simple life apart from general society, usually in a monastery