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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mediumsomething in a middle position
velocityquickness of motion : speed
abjureto renounce upon oath
negligencethe quality or state of being negligent
ornatemarked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric
carapacea bony or chitinous case or shield covering the back or part of the back of an animal (such as a turtle or crab)
boundfastened by or as if by a band : confined
repressto check by or as if by pressure : curb
homelysuggestive or characteristic of a place of residence or home
reproveto scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent