Vocabulary : Refective to Referendum

Refective : Refreshing; restoring. ;; That which refreshes.
Refectories : of Refectory
Refectory : A room for refreshment; originally, a dining hall in monasteries or convents.
Refel : To refute; to disprove; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister.
Refer : To carry or send back. ;; Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal. ;; To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances. ;; To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary. ;; To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote. ;; To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election. ;; To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and t

Referable : Capable of being referred, or considered in relation to something else; assignable; ascribable.
Referee : One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.
Reference : The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance. ;; That which refers to something; a specific direction of the attention; as, a reference in a text-book. ;; Relation; regard; respect. ;; One who, or that which, is referred to. ;; One of whom inquires can be made as to the integrity, capacity, and the like, of another. ;; A work, or a passage in a work, to which one is referred. ;; The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the judgment of one or more persons for decision. ;; The process of sending any matter, for inquiry in a cause, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court. ;; Appeal.
Referendary : One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee. ;; An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions. ;; Formerly, an officer of state charged with the duty of procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees.
Referendum : The principle or practice of referring measures passed upon by the legislative body to the body of voters, or electorate, for approval or rejection, as in the Swiss cantons (except Freiburg) and in various local governments in the United States, and also in the local option laws, etc.; also, the right to so approve or reject laws, or the vote by which this is done. Referendum is distinguished from the mandate, or instruction of representatives by the people, from direct government by the people, in which they initiate and make the laws by direct action without representation, and from a plebiscite, or popular vote taken on any measure proposed by a person or body having the initiative but not constituting a representative or constituent body. ;; A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point. ;; The right to approve or reject by popular vote a meassure passed upon by a legislature.