toil

verbCommon GRE wordMore T words

to work long and hard at something laborious

In a sentence

Toil in a sentence

Here is an example sentence showing toil in a sentence.

They toiled in the fields from dawn until the last light faded.

Synonyms

labordrudgeslavegrind

Antonyms

relaxrestidle

Keep going

understood or implied without being openly stated

habitually reserved and uncommunicative in speech

only loosely relevant; diverging from the main point

perceptible by touch or concrete enough to be grasped

to twist together into a confused or knotted mass

equivalent in effect or value to something else

to dull or damage the luster, reputation, or purity of something

needlessly repeating an idea using different words

Common questions

Toil (verb) means to work long and hard at something laborious

Here is toil used in an example sentence: "They toiled in the fields from dawn until the last light faded."

Common synonyms for toil include labor, drudge, slave, grind.

Antonyms of toil include relax, rest, idle.

Toil is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

Vocabulary sticks when you meet it in real sentences. Practise these words inside text completion and sentence equivalence questions.