Travail

“Travail” (truh-VALE) – from the Latin for a three-staked instrument of torture – is painful or arduous work.

Example (as used by Rafer Johnson with Philip Goldberg in The Best That I Can Be ): “Every sport entails physical and mental travail, but the decathlon is a veritable factory of pain.”

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