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 |
|---|---|
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| abeyance | a state of temporary inactivity : suspension |
| rousing | giving rise to excitement : stirring |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| fervent | very hot : glowing |
| exemplary | deserving imitation : commendable |
| proletarian | a member of the proletariat |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |