ARDUOUS: hard; strenuous

EXAMPLE: Her arduous efforts had sapped her energy.

SYNONYMS: burdensome, exhausting, formidable, grueling, laborious, onerous, painful, rigorous, rough, severe, strenious, taxing, tiring, toilsome, tough,

ANTONYMS: easy, facile, motivating

EXERTION: effort; expenditure of much physical work

EXAMPLE: The exertion involved in unscrewing the rusty bolt left her exhausted.

SYNONYMS: effort; endeavour, exercise, industry, labour, pains, strain, striving, struggle, toil, travail, trail, trouble,

ANTONYMS: idleness, laziness

GRUELING: exhausting

EXAMPLE: The marathon is a grueling race.

SYNONYMS: arduous, demanding, exhausting, faitiguing, hard, harsh, labourious, punishing, severe, strenuous, tiring, torturous,

ANTONYMS: easy, facile

LABORIOUS: demanding much work or care; tedious

EXAMPLE: In putting together his dictionary of the English language, Doctor Johnson undertook a laborious task.

SYNONYMS: arduous, burdensome, fatiguing, labored, onerous, strenuous, tiresome, toilsome, wearisome,

ANTONYMS: easy, effortless, facile, simple, trivialrivial

PRIVATION: hardship; want

EXAMPLE: In private company one would suffer privation;

SYNONYMS: destitution, disadvantage, hardship, indigence, lack, need, poverty, want,

ANTONYMS: luxury, plenty

CUMBERSOME: heavy; hard to manage

EXAMPLE: He was burdened down with cumbersome parcels.

SYNONYMS: bulky, burdensome, inconvenient, massive, oppressive, ponderous, tiresome, unhandy, unmanageable, unwieldy, earisome, weighty,

ANTONYMS: manageable, easy to handle, graceful

ONEROUS: burdensome

EXAMPLE: He asked for an assistant because his work load was too onerous.

SYNONYMS: arduous, cumbersome, demanding, difficult, distressing, exacting, exhausting, fatiguing, formidable, , grueling, irksome, laborious, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiresome,

ANTONYMS: common, easy, light, trivial

ENCUMBER: Burden

EXAMPLE: Some people encumber themselves with too much luggage, when they take short trips.

ONUS: burden; responsibility

EXAMPLE: The emperor was spared the onus of signing the surrender papers; instead, he relegated the assignment to his generals.

SYNONYMS: duty, encumbrance, incubus, liability, obligation, responsibility, stigma, task, tax, weight,

ANTONYMS: aid, benefit, blessing, help

INCUBUS: burden; mental care; nightmare

EXAMPLE: The incubus of financial worry helped bring on her nervous breakdown.

SYNONYMS: demon, devil, fiend, goblin, hobgoblin, nightmare,

ANTONYMS: advantage, benefit

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