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Words related to ordeal

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  • fire

    combustion

  • ordeal tree

    any of several trees having poisonous seeds, leaves, etc., used in primitive trials by ordeal.

  • baptism of fire

    If someone who has just begun a new job has a baptism of fire, they immediately have to cope with very many severe difficulties and obstacles.

  • calabar bean

    the dark brown very poisonous seed of a leguminous woody climbing plant, Physostigma venenosum, of tropical Africa, used as a source of the drug physostigmine

  • contained

    kept from going beyond certain limits; confined

  • gauntlet

    a former punishment, chiefly military, in which the offender was made to run between two rows of men who struck at him with switches or weapons as he passed.
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