| harshness(noun, difficulty, severity, conformity, strictness) |
| infliction(noun, adversity) |
| load(noun, trouble, bother, blow, distress) |
| ordeals |
| pang(noun, trouble, care, pain, shame) |
| perplexity(noun, trouble, care, pain, cross) |
| plight(noun, difficulty, burden, suffering, predicament) |
| poverty(noun, depression, sadness, gloom, unhappiness) |
| predicament(noun, predicament) |
| problem(noun, difficulty, distress, burden, depression) |
| roughness(noun, difficulty, severity, harshness, conformity) |
| severity(noun, difficulty, harshness, conformity, strictness) |
| standard(noun, check, approval, examination, trial) |
| struggle(noun, trouble, test, suffering, grind) |
| travail |
| trial by ordeal(noun, expression, idiom) |
| upheaval(noun, commotion, astonishment, amazement) |
| verification(noun, check, approval, examination, standard) |
| wearying(noun, difficulty) |
| Abaddon(noun, difficulty, misery, grave, nightmare) |