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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| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| equitable | having or exhibiting equity : dealing fairly and equally with all concerned |
| opportunist | one that is opportunistic or that practices opportunism |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |
| debutante | one making a debut (see debut |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |