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 |
|---|---|
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| warranty | a real covenant binding the grantor of an estate and the grantor's heirs to warrant and defend the title |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| bliss | complete happiness |
| ejaculation | an act of ejaculating |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| hue_and_cry | outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |