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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| tithe | a tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a tax especially for the support of a religious establishment |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| obituary | a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| sadistic | of, relating to, or characterized by sadism |
| hortatory | hortative |
| mutinous | disposed to or being in a state of mutiny : rebellious |
| portend | to give an omen or anticipatory sign of |