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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| numismatist | the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (such as medals) |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |