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Meaning of arduous

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  arduous
      adj 1: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion;
             especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up
             the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor";
             "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours
             on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: {arduous},
             {backbreaking}, {grueling}, {gruelling}, {hard}, {heavy},
             {laborious}, {operose}, {punishing}, {toilsome}]
      2: taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his
         final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your
         willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"-
         F.D.Roosevelt [syn: {arduous}, {straining}, {strenuous}]
      3: difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort
         and skill; "the arduous work of preparing a dictionary"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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