Vocabulary Flashcards with Hardship and Suffering Words

This category explores the darker side of human experience, with words like 'adversity', 'ordeal', and 'tribulation'. It's an invaluable resource for discussing challenging situations, personal struggles, or historical events marked by suffering.

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adversity

A difficult or challenging situation, condition, or event that one may face in life.

''Facing adversity early in life helped him develop resilience.''

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Complete Vocabulary List for Hardship and Suffering

adversity

A difficult or challenging situation, condition, or event that one may face in life.

afflict

affliction

agonize

anguish

arduous

backbreaking

barren

crucible

degenerative

deprivation

deprive

desperate

dire

disgusting

drudgery

encumber

excruciating

exhausting

famine

flounder

grievous

grueling

hapless

hardship

harrowing

intolerable

laden

languish

misfortune

oppressed

ordeal

penury

plight

punishing

strenuous

struggle

suffer

suffering

toil

travail

tribulation

trouble

unavailing

wretched