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 |
|---|---|
| unassuming | not assuming : modest |
| devoid | being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
| innovation | a new idea, method, or device : novelty |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |
| perennial | present at all seasons of the year |