GRE Word List
LABORIOUS
involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous
The meaning of the word laborious is involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| seduce | to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| somber | so shaded as to be dark and gloomy |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| defect | an imperfection or abnormality that impairs quality, function, or utility : shortcoming |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |