GRE Word List

TRAVAIL

work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil

The meaning of the word travail is work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil.

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criteriaa standard on which a judgment or decision may be based
flutterto flap the wings rapidly
rancorbitter deep-seated ill will
retardto delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment
ornatemarked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric
rambleto move aimlessly from place to place
ambleto go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter
sardonicdisdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking
sanguinarybloodthirsty
faunaanimal life