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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |
| germinate | to cause to sprout or develop |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| outwit | to get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |