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 |
|---|---|
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| rakish | of, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |