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The doctor recommended strenuous exercise three times a week.strenuous = difficult (requiring much effort)
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Landscaping is strenuous work in the Texas summer.strenuous = difficult (requiring endurance)
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The sanctions were imposed despite strenuous objections from Moscow.strenuous = energetic
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His legs were sore from remaining rigid for so long. Standing still was more strenuous than walking. (source)strenuous = difficult
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During spring and summer—the most strenuous periods of foraging—a worker bee, as a rule, does not live more than four or five weeks. (source)strenuous = physically demanding
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As she raised her hand and swore that the evidence she gave would be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help her God, she seemed somehow fragile-looking, but when she sat facing us in the witness chair she became what she was, a thick-bodied girl accustomed to strenuous labor. (source)strenuous = difficult
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Everybody was in it, so I knew it was going to be a strenuous bore. (source)strenuous = difficult
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The rods had been strenuously taped, so that from the knees down he looked a bit like Im-Ho-Tep when he had been discovered in his tomb.† (source)strenuously = in a manner that requires much effort
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Its leisurely tempo feels mismatched to the strenuousness of the exercise, but Shirakawa is subtly controlling his movements in time with the music.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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that can only be done by suffering, by strenuous, uninterrupted labour. (source)strenuous = difficult
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And I was sure that at least my mother — were I to tell her every detail of the truth — would be more strenuously opposed to me getting married than to me a becoming vampire.† (source)strenuously = in a manner that requires much effort
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An overpowering smell of sweat, a sort of unconscious testimony to the strenuousness of his life, followed him about wherever he went, and even remained behind him after he had gone.† (source)
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This turns out to be a more strenuous proposition than I had anticipated.† (source)strenuous = difficult (requiring much effort)
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They embraced and wept, maybe it was real, maybe partly for effect, speaking smidgens of Russian, English and Yiddish, and soon they were arguing strenuously.† (source)strenuously = in a manner that requires much effort
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In the strenuousness of his concentration he treadled fitfully on the floor.† (source)
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Tennis was too strenuous for her; she would not have wanted to be caught sweating.† (source)strenuous = difficult (requiring much effort)
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