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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| criteria | a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based |
| flutter | to flap the wings rapidly |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| ramble | to move aimlessly from place to place |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |
| fauna | animal life |