Arduous vs X - What's the difference?
arduous | x |
Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
* {{quote-news, year=2012
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(obsolete) burning; ardent
(rft-sense) Difficult or exhausting to traverse.
* 1974 , Sue Bowder, The American biking atlas & touring guide , page 77:
* 1999 , Scott Ciencin, Mike Fredericks, Dinoverse :
* 2006 , Jack W. Plunkett, Plunkett's Entertainment & Media Industry Almanac 2006 :
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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As an adjective arduous
is needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.arduous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The movement towards a peaceful settlement has been a long and arduous political struggle.
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- Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. — Cary.
- Beyond the river, an arduous slope rises 3286 feet in 13 miles.
- Mike looked up from the arduous mountain trail. They'd been climbing for five hours and he was beginning to feel irritable.
- Survivor reaches as many as 28 million viewers who watch contestants win a new Pontiac or guzzle Mountain Dew after scaling an arduous cliff.