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road block
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prevention to progress |
| Synonyms: | barrier, blank wall, catch, complication, deterrent, difficulty, discouragement, drawback, handicap, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impediment, limitation, obstacle, obstruction, snag, stone in one's path, stumbling block |
| Main Entry: | skein |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tangle |
| Synonyms: | cat's cradle, coil, complication, entanglement, jam*, jungle*, knot, labyrinth, mass, mat, maze, mesh, mess*, mix-up, morass, muddle, rummage, snag, snarl, strand, thread, twist, web |
| Notes: | a group of geese is a gaggle, but only when they are on the ground; in the air, the group is a skein |
| Main Entry: | topsy-turviness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disorder |
| Synonyms: | agitation, anarchism, anarchy, brawl, bustle, chaos, clamor, clutter, complication, confusedness, confusion, convulsion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, discombobulation, discord, disorderedness, disorderliness, disorganization, distemper, disturbance, dither, entanglement, fight, flap, fracas, fuss*, hubbub, hullabaloo*, imbroglio, insurrection, jumble, lawlessness, mayhem, mess*, misrule, mix-up, mob rule, muddle, muss, quarrel, rebellion, reign of terror, revolution, riot, rioting, ruckus*, rumpus, scramble, static*, strike, terrorism, tizzy, trouble, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, unruliness, uproar |
| Main Entry: | difficulty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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accomplished with difficulty, aerumnous, aground, arduous, at a loss, at a nonplus, at a standstill, at bay, at cross, at the end of one's tether, awkward, beset with difficulties, between Scylla and Charybdis, between two stools, complicated, crabbed, critical, delicate, desperate, difficult, difficult to deal with, driven from post to pillar, driven into a corner, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall, embarrassing, encompassed with difficulties, entangled by difficulties, farpotshket, fashious, feisty, formidable, full of difficulties, graveled, hard, hard, hard, hard put to it, hard to deal with, hard up, herculean, ill, impracticable, in a clever stick, in a fine pickle, in a fix, in a scrape, in deep water, in difficulty, in hot water, in the suds, in the wrong box, intractable, intricate, invious, irksome, knotted, laborious, labyrinthine, more easily said than done, nonplussed, not easy, not feasible, not made with rose, not to be handled with kid gloves, onerous, operose, out of one's depth, pathless, perplexing, perverse, pinched, plaguy, plexiform, put to it, put to one's shifts, puzzled, quisquous, reduced to straits, refractory, rugged, run hard, set fast, sooner said than done, sorely pressed, straitened, stranded, stubborn, stuck fast, surrounded by breakers, surrounded by difficulties, surrounded by quicksands, surrounded by shoals, thorny, thrown out, ticklish, toilsome, tough, trackless, troublesome, trying, under a difficulty, unmanageable, unwieldy, up a tree
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| Main Entry: | trial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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analytic, cut-and-try, docimastic, empirical, essaying, experimental, icarian, on one's trial, peirastic, probationary, probative, probatory, provisional, tentative, under probation
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| Concept: | [more]. Complexity |
| Category: | 1. ORDER |
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-nouns
complexity; complexness; complexus; complication, implication; intricacy, intrication; perplexity; network, labyrinth; wilderness, jungle; involution, raveling, entanglement; coil (convolution); sleave, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels; kink, gnarl; webwork.
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| Concept: | Difficulty. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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-nouns
difficulty; hardness; impracticability (impossibility); tough work, hard work, uphill work; hard task, Herculean task, Augean task; task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor, tough job, teaser, rasper, dead lift., dilemma, embarrassment; deadlock; perplexity (uncertainty); intricacy; entanglement; cross fire; awkwardness, delicacy, ticklish card to play, knot, Gordian knot, dignus vindice nodus, net, meshes, maze; coil (convolution); crooked path; involvement., nice point, delicate point, subtle point, knotty point; vexed question, vexata quaestio, poser; puzzle (riddle); paradox; hard nut to crack, nut to crack; bone to pick, crux, pons asinorum, where the shoe pinches., nonplus, quandary, strait, pass, pinch, pretty pass, stress, brunt; critical situation, crisis; trial, rub, emergency, exigency, scramble., scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest; sea of troubles, peck of troubles; pretty kettle of fish; pickle, stew, imbroglio, mess, ado; false position., set fast, stand; deadlock, dead set., fix, horns of a dilemma, cul de sac; hitch; stumblng block (hindrance).
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| Antonyms: | facility |
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| Concept: | [Absence, or want of order] Disorder. |
| Category: | 1. ORDER |
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disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; disunion; discord., confusion; confusedness; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss [U. S.], hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles [Ovid]., turmoil; ferment (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.
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| Antonyms: | order |
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