rigors
Trials and tribulations
Rigors are harsh conditions or demanding challenges that test endurance: the rigors of winter, the rigors of medical school, the rigors of basic training.
The word emphasizes severity and difficulty—things that require toughness to withstand.
In medicine, rigors are episodes of shivering and chills, often accompanying fever.
Unsparing quality or manner
- brutalitySavage, merciless behavior
- inclemencyHarsh weather conditions
- extremityOutermost part or limit
- intensityStrength or force level
relentlessness · unforgiving · mercilessness · cruelty · grimness · bleakness · fierceness · pitilessness
Shivering spells from illness
- shiveringInvoluntary bodily trembling
- tremorsSlight shaking movements
- feverElevated body temperature
- shakingRapid involuntary movement
cold · paroxysm · malaria · hypothermia · ague · convulsion · symptom · episode
Severity of requirements
- exactnessCorrectness in every detail
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
- meticulousnessExtreme carefulness in details
- scrupulousnessCareful moral precision
punctiliousness · formality · inflexibility · rigidity · sternness · firmness · exacting · demanding
Formal legal proceedings
- tribulationsCauses of great distress
- ordealsSeverely difficult experiences
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
privation · austerity · deprivation · hardship · struggles · affliction · distress · misfortune
Educational funding or erudition
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
- studyDeliberate learning effort
- preparationArranging things in advance
coursework · examination · research · methodology · thesis · dissertation · analysis · scrutiny
harshness
Unsparing quality or manner
- brutalitySavage, merciless behavior
- inclemencyHarsh weather conditions
- extremityOutermost part or limit
intensity · relentlessness · unforgiving · mercilessness · cruelty · grimness · bleakness · fierceness · pitilessness · ruthlessness
chills
Shivering spells from illness
shaking · cold · paroxysm · malaria · hypothermia · ague · convulsion · symptom · episode · attack
stringency
Severity of requirements
- exactnessCorrectness in every detail
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
- meticulousnessExtreme carefulness in details
scrupulousness · punctiliousness · formality · inflexibility · rigidity · sternness · firmness · exacting · demanding · uncompromising
trials
Formal legal proceedings
- tribulationsCauses of great distress
- ordealsSeverely difficult experiences
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
suffering · privation · austerity · deprivation · hardship · struggles · affliction · distress · misfortune · penury
scholarship
Educational funding or erudition
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
- studyDeliberate learning effort
preparation · coursework · examination · research · methodology · thesis · dissertation · analysis · scrutiny · review
- malaria effectshemolysis, jaundice, hypoglycemia, hepatomegaly, anemia
- feverfever, high fever, febrile, low-grade fever, feverish
- illness symptomsfever, chills, aches, headache, cough
- endocarditis signsheart murmur, vegetations, regurgitation, fever, bacteremia
- Transfusion Reactionstransfusion reaction, allergic reaction, anaphylaxis, delayed reaction, crossmatch
rigorscomforts
Eases distress; pleasures
ease · luxuries · pleasures · amenities · conveniences
rigorsflexibilities
Capacities to bend or adjust
laxity · looseness · leniency · permissiveness · latitude
rigorsmildness
Gentle, moderate quality
gentleness · clemency · temperance · balminess · moderateness
- rigor mortisPostmortem muscular rigidity
- rigorous trainingSystematic, demanding instruction
- intellectual rigorDisciplined, exacting thought standards
- academic rigorStrictness in intellectual pursuits
- scientific rigorStrict adherence to method
- rigour mortisStiffening following death