| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| skillful performance or ability without difficulty |
adeptness
,
adroitness
,
deftness
,
facility
,
quickness
|
| Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904) |
Anton Chekhov
,
Anton Chekov
,
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
,
Anton Pavlovich Chekov
,
Chekhov
,
Chekov
|
| swallowing difficulty |
aphagia
|
| aphasia in which the lesion is assumed to be in the association tracts connecting the various language centers in the brain; patient's have difficulty repeating a sentence just heard |
associative aphasia
,
conduction aphasia
|
| (statistics) the difficulty of applying Bayes' theorem is that the probabilities of the different causes are seldom known, in which case it may be postulated that they are all equal (sometimes known as postulating the equidistribution of ignorance) |
Bayes' postulate
|
| unpleasant difficulty |
bitch
|
| cause of difficulty and suffering |
blaze
,
hell
|
| unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty |
booby trap
,
pitfall
|
| unwelcome burdensome difficulty |
burdensomeness
,
heaviness
,
onerousness
,
oppressiveness
|
| drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident |
catch
,
gimmick
|
| freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state |
comfort
,
ease
|
| difficulty, add to a |
compound
|
| failure to face some difficulty squarely |
copout
|
| unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty |
crisis
|
| rescue from destruction, difficulty, evil |
deliverance
,
salvation
|
| any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an insoluble difficulty |
deus ex machina
|
| abnormal shift in location of the nasal septum; a common condition causing obstruction of the nasal passages and difficulty in breathing and recurrent nosebleeds |
deviated nasal septum
|
| condition of difficulty |
dilemma
,
plight
,
predicament
,
quandary
|
| acute contagious infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae; marked by the formation of a false membrane in the throat and other air passages causing difficulty in breathing |
diphtheria
|
| difficulty in defecating (usually as a consequence of long continued voluntary suppression of the urge to defecate) |
dyschezia
|
