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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| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |
| pulmonary | of, relating to, affecting, or occurring in the lungs |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| culinary | of or relating to the kitchen or cookery |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
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