obstacle
/ˈɑbstəkəl/ noun B1- Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress, either physically or figuratively · A big obstacle to understanding the manual was that it had been poorly translated from the Japanese.
Plural obstacles
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“Everything,” he said, “proves me to be under the protection of some powerful person,—this sudden fortune, the facility with which I have overcome all obstacles, an unexpected family and an illustrious name awarded to me, gold showered down upon me, and the most splendid alliances about to be entered into.
His sense of her inferiority, of its being a degradation, of the family obstacles which judgment had always opposed to inclination, were dwelt on with a warmth which seemed due to the consequence he was wounding, but was very unlikely to recommend his suit.
Two obstacles of the five being thus removed, Mrs.
You do not imagine that if I were the pursuer I should allow myself to be baffled by so slight an obstacle.
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