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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provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |
germinate | to cause to sprout or develop |
don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
outwit | to get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart |
timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
distant | separated in space : away |
gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |