85 entries under difficulty topic. ×
| hardship(noun, trouble, shock, burden) | |
| adversity(noun, trouble, worry, shock) | |
| affliction(trouble, shock, failure, lack) | |
| bummer(noun, trouble, situation, suffering) | |
| curse(trouble, shock, failure, lack) | |
| distress(noun, trouble, want, situation) | |
| downer(noun, trouble, shock, struggle) | |
| rigor(noun, trouble, worry, want) | |
| trial(trouble, lack, torment, drag) | |
| tribulation(trouble, lack, torment, adversity) | |
| trouble(lack, torment, drag, hardship) | |
| vicissitude(noun, trouble, worry, want) | |
| bad break(expression, hardship, misfortune) | |
| bad luck(noun, expression, trouble, shock) | |
| calamity(noun, trouble, shock, struggle) | |
| can of worms(noun, expression, idiom, trouble) | |
| catastrophe(noun, trouble, shock, struggle) | |
| clutch(hardship, misfortune) | |
| contretemps(shock, failure, disaster, catastrophe) | |
| crunch(noun, trouble, situation, suffering) |
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