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 |
|---|---|
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| circuit | a usually circular line encompassing an area |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| invert | to reverse in position, order, or relationship |
| finery | ornament |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |