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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soldera metal or metallic alloy used when melted to join metallic surfaces
contendto strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle
epitomea typical or ideal example : embodiment
demoniacpossessed or influenced by a demon
apothegma short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism
credentialwarranting credit or confidence
saboteurone that practices sabotage
recountto relate in detail : narrate
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
unscathedwholly unharmed : not injured