GRE Word List
PAINSTAKING
taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort
The meaning of the word painstaking is taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| untoward | difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly |
| unassuaged | not quenched, eased, or satisfied : not assuaged |
| urge | to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly |
| swarthy | of a dark color, complexion, or cast |
| tender | marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : fond |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| rapport | a friendly, harmonious relationship |
| parchment | the skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |