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 |
|---|---|
| rummage | to make a thorough search or investigation |
| blunt | having an edge or point that is not sharp |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| opportunist | one that is opportunistic or that practices opportunism |
| seduce | to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| madrigal | a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form |
| sophist | philosopher |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |