When working through “Difficulty”, these entries offer direction based on repeated appearances in puzzles that featured a similar clue layout, wording style, and solving logic.
Suggested Answers:
- TROUBLE
- SNAGS
- PROBLEM
- SNAG
- HARDSHIP
- PROBLEMS
- ONUS
- RUB
- COMPLICATION
- ADO
- MIRE
- DILEMMA
- RIGOR
- ORDEAL
Synonyms and Definitions
TROUBLE
- Synonyms: ail, bother, cark, discommode, disoblige, disorder, disquiet, distract, disturb, fuss, hassle, incommode, inconvenience, inconvenience oneself, pain, perturb, problem, put out, trouble oneself, unhinge, upset, worry
SNAGS
- Synonyms: hang-up, hitch, rent, rip, rub, split, tear
PROBLEM
- Synonyms: job, trouble
HARDSHIP
- Synonyms: adversity, asperity, grimness, hard knocks, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity
ONUS
- Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, incumbrance, load
RUB
- Synonyms: chafe, fray, fret, itch, scratch, snag, wipe
COMPLICATION
- Synonyms: complicatedness, knottiness, ramification, tortuousness
ADO
- Synonyms: bustle, flurry, hustle, stir
- Definition: a swift, lively disturbance
MIRE
- Synonyms: bog down, entangle, get stuck, grind to a halt, morass, muck, muck up, mud, quag, quagmire, slack, slop
DILEMMA
- Synonyms: quandary
RIGOR
- Synonyms: cogency, hardness, hardship, harshness, inclemency, stiffness, validity
ORDEAL
- Synonyms: trial by ordeal