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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| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
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| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| earthy | of, relating to, or consisting of earth |
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| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
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