Random GRE/CAT VOCABULARY LIST
grueling
Meaning :
exhausting; Ex. grueling marathon race
(adj.) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
Sentence :
worked their arduous way up the mining valley, a grueling campaign, hard labor, heavy work, heavy going, spent many laborious hours on the project, set a punishing pace
Synonyms :
arduous, backbreaking, brutal, chastening, crushing, demanding, excruciating, exhausting, fatiguing, fierce, grinding, hairy*, hard, harsh, heavy*, laborious, punishing, racking, severe, stiff, strenuous, tiring, torturous, trying
Antonyms :
easy, facile
Mnemonic Technique 1 :
duelling (fighting) is always grueling (exhausting)...
Mnemonic Technique 2 :
sounds like crawling ..so a person who is crawling has no enery.. is completely exhausted
More Examples :
Every morning, the miners worked their arduous way up the mining valley.
running a marathon is grueling
