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as in personal burden

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hardships

noun as in personal burden

Strongest matches

  • adversity
  • calamity
  • catastrophe
  • danger
  • difficulty
  • disaster
  • discomfort
  • fatigue
  • grief
  • hazard
  • injury
  • misery
  • misfortune
  • oppression
  • peril
  • persecution
  • sorrow
  • suffering
  • torment
  • trouble
  • worry

Strong matches

  • accident
  • affliction
  • asperity
  • austerity
  • case
  • curse
  • destitution
  • distress
  • drudgery
  • grievance
  • labor
  • mischance
  • need
  • privation
  • rigor
  • toil
  • travail
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • vicissitude
  • want

Weak matches

  • Herculean task
  • hard knocks
  • rainy day
  • rotten luck
  • tough break
  • tough luck
  • uphill battle

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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