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 |
|---|---|
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity : quandary |
| cliche | a trite phrase or expression |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |
| piscatorial | piscatory |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |
| incline | to bend the head or body forward : bow |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |