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.

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floraa treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period
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antithesisthe direct opposite
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