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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| Word | Meaning |
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| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
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| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| wrench | to move with a violent twist |
| skulduggery | underhanded or unscrupulous behavior |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| pinion | the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges |