Arduous vs Audacious - What's the difference?
arduous | audacious |
Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
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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 :
Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
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Impudent.
As adjectives the difference between arduous and audacious
is that arduous is needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance while audacious is showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.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.
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(English Citations of "arduous")Synonyms
* burdensome * demanding * exhausting * fatiguing * laborious * onerous * strenuous * wearisomeExternal links
* * *audacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.