Monday, November 12, 2007

Onerous

Onerous
Adjective

Def: Burdensome; oppressive
When something represents or is a burden on someone.

There were a million better things Jack thought he could be doing rather than going to the jury duty date he had been assigned. This extremely onerous task was just cutting into the free time he had been planning to enjoy on his first day off in a very long time.

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