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hardship

n. something that causes or entails suffering; "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life"

adversity

n. a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"

severity, asperity, grimness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness

n. something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"

visitation, trial, cross, tribulation

n. an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague"

crucible, melting pot

n. a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions

ordeal

n. a severe or trying experience

difficulty

n. a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties"

visitation, trial, cross, tribulation

n. an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague"

disaster, tragedy, calamity, catastrophe, cataclysm

n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"

suffering, woe

n. misery resulting from affliction

privation, deprivation, want

n. a state of extreme poverty

affliction

n. a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health

challenge

n. a demanding or stimulating situation; "they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power"

crisis

n. an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; "they went bankrupt during the economic crisis"

emergency

n. a state in which martial law applies; "the governor declared a state of emergency"

pass, straits, strait

n. a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs

sternness, strictness

n. uncompromising resolution

ordeal

n. a severe or trying experience

hindrance, handicap, drawback

n. the quality of being a hindrance; "he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan"

handicap

n. advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning

pitch

n. the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration

exactness, exactitude

n. the quality of being exact; "he demanded exactness in all details"; "a man of great exactitude"

cruelty, harshness, cruelness

n. the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

inflexibility, rigidity

n. the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe

portion, lot, fate, luck, fortune, circumstances

n. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"

prosperity

n. the condition of prospering; having good fortune

ease, simplicity, easiness

n. freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into containers for ease of transportation"; "the very easiness of the deed held her back"

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