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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implacablenot placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated
capricea sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action
stanzaa division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe
decimateto select by lot and kill every tenth man of
queerdiffering in some way from what is usual or normal : odd
swampa wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water
demisedeath
fronda large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions
contusioninjury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise
unequivocalleaving no doubt : clear