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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| solder | a metal or metallic alloy used when melted to join metallic surfaces |
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| epitome | a typical or ideal example : embodiment |
| demoniac | possessed or influenced by a demon |
| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |