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Planting the garden took hours of toil.
What does Toil mean?
hard work, or to work hard.
Dictionary definition
Toil is hard, steady work, and to toil means to work for a long time with effort.
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Toil in a sentence
medium
The workers toiled in the sun to finish the path.
hard
The poem uses toil to show how much effort the family put into building a better life.
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What does toil mean?
Toil means difficult work or the action of working hard.
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Which word or phrase is a useful contrast for toil?
Rest is a contrast because toil means hard work.
Practice 3
Choose the best word to complete the sentence: The farmer’s ____ helped the crops grow.
Toil best completes the sentence.
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WordToil.
Partnoun, verb.
MeaningToil means hard work, or to work hard.
ExampleExample: Planting the garden took hours of toil.
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restTime spent not working.
easeA state of little difficulty or effort.
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Word family
Toil word family
Base word
toil
noun
toil
Hard, steady work.
verb
toiled
Worked hard in the past.
verb
toiling
Working hard now.
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