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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| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| swear | to utter or take solemnly (an oath) |
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| token | a piece resembling a coin issued for use (as for fare on a bus) by a particular group on specified terms |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| calorific | caloric |
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