{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY April 3, 2019--------------- arduous

WORD OF THE DAY April 3, 2019

arduous    adjective | AHR-juh-wus     Definition   1 a : hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult   b : marked by great labor or effort : strenuous   2 : hard to climb : steep   Scroll down for more about arduous      TRENDING NOW: redact redacted whitewash exonerate SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   Does 'Uninhibited' Contain a Double Negative?       'Accept' vs 'Except': Two Verbs, One Pronunciation     The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 3/29/19       Checking Boxes: 8 Box Words         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   March 2019 Words of the Day Quiz   How well do you know them?     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   "To forgive is the most arduous pitch human nature can arrive at." When Richard Steele published that line in The Guardian in 1713, he was using arduous in what was apparently a fairly new way for English writers in his day: to imply that something was steep or lofty as well as difficult or strenuous. Steele's use is one of the earliest documented in English for that meaning, but he didn't commit it to paper until almost 150 years after the first uses of the word in its "strenuous" sense. Although the "steep" sense is newer, it is still true to the word's origins; arduous derives from the Latin arduus, which means "high," "steep," or "difficult."     Examples of ARDUOUS   Every summer, right before the beginning of the new school year, the football team begins its season with "Hell Week," an arduous six days of conditioning and training.   "The mission has been long and the road arduous for Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL, which has, in some iteration or another, been working on the concept of a lunar lander for nearly a decade." — Chabeli Herrera, The Orlando (Florida) Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2019   Test Your Vocabulary   What 4-letter noun beginning with "sl" can refer to a prolonged arduous task or to a hard, dogged march?   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORDS AT PLAY     8 Nicer Ways to Say 'Stupid'   As illustrated by some very smart, very good pups   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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