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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| confide | to have confidence : trust |
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| ethos | the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution |
| negligence | the quality or state of being negligent |
| tractable | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled : docile |
| execute | to carry out fully : put completely into effect |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| repertoire | a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |