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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
vicissitude |
| NOUN: | Something that obstructs progress and requires great effort to overcome. Often used in plural: asperity, difficulty, hardship, rigor. Idioms: a hard (or tough) nut to crack, a hard (or tough) row to hoe, heavy sledding. See EASY. |
| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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