SAT vocabulary
Travail
Painfully difficult or laborious work; toil.
Example
"The pioneers endured great travail as they crossed the vast, unyielding wilderness."
Etymology
From Old French 'travail' meaning 'work, suffering, torment,' ultimately from Latin 'tripalium,' a torture instrument.
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