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 |
|---|---|
| unassuaged | not quenched, eased, or satisfied : not assuaged |
| mat | a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support |
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| temper | heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion |
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |