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- Difficulty - n. - The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.
- Difficulty - n. - Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.
- Difficulty - n. - A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
- Difficulty - n. - Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
- Help - v. t. - Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars.
- Presbyopia - - A defect of vision consequent upon advancing age. It is due to rigidity of the crystalline lens, which produces difficulty of accommodation and recession of the near point of vision, so that objects very near the eyes can not be seen distinctly without the use of convex glasses. Called also presbytia.
- Easily - adv. - With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.
- Inconvenience - n. - That which gives trouble, embarrassment, or uneasiness; disadvantage; anything that disturbs quiet, impedes prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty.
- Rider - n. - A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.
- Grind - v. i. - To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- Insurmountable - a. - Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle.
- Scruple - n. - Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.
- Abstruseness - n. - The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.
- Fix - n. - A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.
- Struggle - v. i. - To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
- Quandary - n. - A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.
- Ruttle - n. - A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty of breathing; a rattle.
- Inwrap - v. t. - To involve, as in difficulty or perplexity; to perplex.
- Infusibility - n. - Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved; as, the infusibility of carbon.
- Bolster - v. t. - To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up.
- Molybdenum - n. - A rare element of the chromium group, occurring in nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced obtained as a hard, silver-white, difficulty fusible metal. Symbol Mo. Atomic weight 95.9.
- Bad lands - - Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by caons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).
- Lanthanum - n. - A rare element of the group of the earth metals, allied to aluminium. It occurs in certain rare minerals, as cerite, gadolinite, orthite, etc., and was so named from the difficulty of separating it from cerium, didymium, and other rare elements with which it is usually associated. Atomic weight 138.5. Symbol La.
- Hydrophobia - n. - The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness.
- Facilitate - v. t. - To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.
- Arduously - adv. - In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.
- Corner - v. t. - To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
- Difficulty - n. - The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.
- Arduousness - n. - The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.
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- G1418 δυσ- - 1418 δυσ- - ΔΥΣ- - - dys- - doos - a primary inseparable particle of uncertain derivation; used only in composition as a prefix; hard, i.e. with difficulty:--+ hard, + grievous, etc. - - greek
- H3517 כְּבֵדֻת - 3517 כְּבֵדֻת - כְּבֵדֻת - - kᵉbêduth - keb-ay-dooth' - feminine of כָּבֵד; difficulty; [idiom] heavily. - Noun Feminine - heb
- G3425 μόγις - 3425 μόγις - ΜΌΓΙΣ - - mógis - mog'-is - adverb from a primary (toil); with difficulty:--hardly. - Adverb - greek
- G3433 μόλις - 3433 μόλις - ΜΌΛΙΣ - - mólis - mol'-is - probably by variation for μόγις; with difficulty:--hardly, scarce(-ly), + with much work. - Adverb - greek
- H7180 קִשֻּׁא - 7180 קִשֻּׁא - קִשֻּׁא - - qishshuʼ - kish-shoo' - from an unused root (meaning to be hard); a cucumber (from the difficulty of digestion); cucumber. - Noun Feminine - heb