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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malfeasance | wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official |
| unceremonious | not ceremonious : informal |
| swathe | a band used in swathing |
| seedy | containing or full of seeds |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| gratify | to be a source of or give pleasure or satisfaction to |