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adjective·B1·11 letters
difficult in an interesting way
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Learning a new language can be genuinely challenging at first.
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Learning a new language can be genuinely challenging at first.
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Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.
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