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 |
|---|---|
| verdant | green in tint or color |
| parched | deprived of natural moisture |
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| roster | a roll or list of personnel |
| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| throes | pang |