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tough going

ADJECTIVE
strenuous
Synonyms
STRONGEST
arduous demanding exhausting laborious taxing uphill
WEAK
effortful energy-consuming hard herculean mean operose toilful toilsome tough wicked
Antonyms
STRONGEST
easy facile trivial
WEAK
apathetic effortless enervated lethargic unenthusiastic

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