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 |
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| causal | expressing or indicating cause : causative |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| guileless | innocent |
| occlude | to close up or block off : obstruct |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| hardy | bold |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |
| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |