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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tomebook
discloseto make known or public
limboan abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism
resourcefulable to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means
effluviuman invisible emanation
disarraya lack of order or sequence : confusion
harbingersomething that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come
decadencethe process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent
histrionicdeliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical
mediocreof moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance : ordinary