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 |
|---|---|
| puissant | having puissance : powerful |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| dispirited | to deprive of morale or enthusiasm |
| outmoded | not being in style |
| volition | the power of choosing or determining : will |
| pass_off | present falsely; represent falsely to be |
| maternal | of, relating to, belonging to, or characteristic of a mother : motherly |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |