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labored

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Main Entry: labor
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: work very hard

Synonyms:

bear down, cultivate, drive, drudge, endeavor, exert oneself, grind, plod, plug away, pour it on, slave, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, tend, toil, travail, work oneself to the bone

Antonyms:

idle, laze, relax
Main Entry: labored
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: difficult to understand, unclear

Synonyms:

affected, arduous, awkward, clumsy, contrived, effortful, forced, hard, heavy, inept, maladroit, operose, overdone, overwrought, ponderous, stiff, strained, strenuous, studied, toilsome, unnatural, uphill, weighty

Antonyms:

easy, facile, natural, relaxed
Main Entry: act
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: do something

Synonyms:

accomplish, achieve, begin, carry on, carry out, consummate, cook, create, develop, do, do a number, do one's thing, enforce, execute, function, get in there, go about, go for broke, go for it, go in for, go that route, go to town, intrude, knock off, labor, make progress, maneuver, move, officiate, operate, percolate*, perk*, perpetrate, persevere, persist, practice, preside, pursue, respond, serve, take effect, take part, take steps, take up, transort, undertake, work out
Notes: an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act

Antonyms:

abstain, cease, discontinue, give up, halt, hesitate, idle, refrain, stop
Main Entry: agonize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: suffer or cause another to suffer

Synonyms:

afflict, bleed, carry on, crucify, distress, disturb, eat heart out, excruciate, harrow, hurt, labor, lament, martyr, pain, rack, sing the blues, squirm, stew over, strain, strive, struggle, take it badly, torment, torture, try, wince, worry, writhe

Antonyms:

not worry
Main Entry: arduous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: difficult, hard to endure

Synonyms:

backbreaking, burdensome, exhausting, fatiguing, formidable, grueling, harsh, heavy, labored, laborious, murder, no picnic, onerous, painful, punishing, rigorous, rough, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill

Antonyms:

easy, facile, motivating
Main Entry: artificial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pretended; affected

Synonyms:

assumed, contrived, false, feigned, forced, hollow, insincere, labored, mannered, meretricious, phony*, put-on, spurious, theatrical, unnatural

Antonyms:

genuine, natural, unaffected, unpretentious
Main Entry: contrived
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: overly planned

Synonyms:

affected, artificial, elaborate, fake, false, forced, labored, manipulated, overdone, phony, recherché, strained, unnatural, unspontaneous
Main Entry: cultivate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: develop land for growing

Synonyms:

breed, crop, dress, farm, fertilize, garden, harvest, labor, manage, mature, plant, plow, prepare, propagate, raise, ripen, seed, tend, till, work

Antonyms:

destroy, ignore, neglect
Main Entry: difficult
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hard on someone; hard to do

Synonyms:

Gargantuan, Herculean, ambitious, arduous, backbreaker, bothersome, burdensome, challenging, crucial, demanding, difficile, easier said than done, effortful, exacting, formidable, galling, hard-won, heavy, immense, intricate, irritating, labored, laborious, no picnic, not easy, onerous, operose, painful, problem, problematic, prohibitive, rigid, severe, stiff, strenuous, titanic, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, unyielding, uphill, upstream, wearisome

Antonyms:

calm, easy, free, manageable, plain, simple, uncomplicated
Main Entry: drudge
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: work very hard

Synonyms:

back to the salt mines, dig, grind*, hammer*, keep nose to grindstone, labor, muck, perform, plod, plow, plug away, pound*, schlepp, slave, slog, sweat, toil, travail

Antonyms:

avoid, be lazy, dodge, hesitate, idle
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