Difficulty

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Awkwardness

Synonyms Strain, awkwardness, toil, laboriousness, arduousness, problems, hassle, dolour, complexity, intricacy, knottiness, trickiness, obscurity, struggling, trouble, labour, strenuousness, pains, trials and tribulations, stress, travails, complicatedness, perplexity, difficultness, hardness, and abstruseness.

Issue

Synonyms Problem, issue, snag, drawback, handicap, hindrance, hurdle, obstruction, fly in the ointment, headache, facer, monkey wrench in the works, tramme, complication, disadvantage, hitch, pitfall, impediment, obstacle, stumbling block, barrier, prob, hiccup, spanner in the works, and cumber.

Crisis

Synonyms Trouble, crisis, adversity, need, dire straits, quandary, plight, deep water, a jam, a scrape, a hole, distress, hardship, extremity, hard times, predicament, dilemma, hot water, a fix, a spot, a stew, and a pickle.

Example Sentences

She faced difficulty solving the problem.

They experienced difficulty during the hike.

He overcame difficulty with hard work.

The task posed unexpected difficulty today.