rigor
Other forms: rigors
When a school boasts of its academic rigor, it means its students learn a lot and work really hard. Rigor means thoroughness and exhaustiveness — the gold standard for a good teacher.
You may have heard of "rigor mortis" — which is a medical term describing the stiffness of a body after death. Another meaning of rigor is "sternness or severity" — for many, the rigors of boot camp are not easy to endure.
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excessive sternness“the rigors of boot camp”
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synonyms:
austerity, hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness
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type of:
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sternness, strictness
uncompromising resolution
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sternness, strictness
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something hard to endure
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synonyms:
asperity, grimness, hardship, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity
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types:
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sternness
the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding
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type of:
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difficultness, difficulty
the quality of being difficult
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sternness
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the quality of being valid and rigorous
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believability, credibility, credibleness
the quality of being believable or trustworthy
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believability, credibility, credibleness
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Vocabulary lists containing rigor
This list covers "Facebook Photos Sting Minnesota High School Students," "Abolish high school football!," "Separate and Unequal: Indian Schools, a Nation's Neglect," and “Time to raise the bar in high schools.”
In this magical realist novel, two teens forge a bond after they are both victims of violence.
During the influenza epidemic of 1919, Rachel's guardians send her to England to impersonate their daughter and claim her inheritance.
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