Problem

address to try to solve a problem aggravate - to make a bad situation, an illness, or an injury worse OPP improve alleviate - to make something less painful or difficult to deal with appreciate - to understand how serious or important a situation or problem is approach - to begin to deal with a situation or problem in a particular way or with a particular attitude assess - to make a judgment about a person or situation after thinking carefully about it attack to criticize something be acquainted with/ caught up in/confronted with/preoccupied with/rattled by to know about something bear on to relate to and possibly influence something bring a to a head - come to a head (bring something to a head) - if a problem or difficult situation comes to a head, or something brings it to a head, it suddenly becomes worse and has to be dealt with quickly brush aside to refuse to consider something burden sb with to have a lot of problems because of a particular thing circumvent to avoid a problem in a clever way combat to stop a problem from getting worse come across encounter to experience a problem come to grips with to understand or to deal with a problem come up against to have to deal with problems conquer to gain control over something difficult crack to find an answer to a problem disclose - to make something publicly known, especially after it has been kept secret SYN reveal dispose of - to deal with something such as a problem or question successfully

ease - if something unpleasant eases, or if you ease it, it gradually improves or becomes less elucidate - to explain something that is difficult to understand by providing more information SYN clarify encounter - come across to experience a problem, erase, escape from evade - dodge - to deliberately avoid discussing something or doing something exacerbate - to make a bad situation worse exaggerate - to make something seem better, larger, worse etc than it really is face - if you face or are faced with a difficult situation, or if a difficult situation faces you, it is going to affect you and you must deal with it face up to - to accept and deal with a difficult fact or problem foresee to predict what will happen in the future foretell to say what will happen in the future get to grips with - to understand or deal with something difficult grapple with - to try hard to deal with or understand something difficult grasp - to completely understand a fact or an idea, especially a complicated one heighten - if something heightens a feeling, effect etc, or if a feeling etc heightens, it becomes stronger or increases SYN intensify strengthen involve - if an activity or situation involves something, that thing is part of it or a result of it lose sight of forget an important fact of a situation magnify - to make something much worse or more serious master - overcome - to manage to control a strong emotion SYN overcome overlook - to not notice something, or not see how important it is SYN miss pinpoint - to discover or explain exactly the real facts about something or the cause of a problem perceive - to understand or think of something or someone in a particular way pose - to exist in a way that may cause a problem

precipitate - to make something serious happen suddenly or more quickly than was expected SYN hasten rectify - to correct something that is wrong SYN put right represent to describe something in a particular way resolve - to find a satisfactory way of dealing with a problem or difficulty rise above - if someone rises above a bad situation or bad influences, they do not let these things affect them because they are mentally strong or have strong moral principles run into - to start to experience a difficult or unpleasant situation run up against - to have to deal with unexpected problems or a difficult opponent shirk - to deliberately avoid doing something you should do, because you are lazy shy away from - to avoid doing or dealing with something because you are not confident enough or you are worried or nervous about it smooth out to get rid of problems sort out - to successfully deal with a problem or difficult situation straighten out deal with a problem and make it better surmount - to succeed in dealing with a problem or difficulty SYN overcome tackle - to try to deal with a difficult problem think over/through to consider something carefully thrash out - to discuss something thoroughly with someone until you find an answer, reach an agreement, or decide on something throw up to produce problems tinker with urinate touch upon to mention a particular problem transform to change something completely baffle sb - if something baffles you, you cannot understand or explain it at all

beset sb - to make someone experience serious problems or dangers clear up to solve a problem come to a head - if a problem or difficult situation comes to a head, or something brings it to a head, it suddenly becomes worse and has to be dealt with quickly crop up - if a problem crops up, it happens or appears suddenly and in an unexpected way SYN arise derive from sth to come from emerge to appear get out of hand impossible to control haunt sb to cause problems over a long period of time hinge on sth to depend on something completely loom ahead to appear lurk - if something such as danger, a feeling etc lurks somewhere, it exists, but you may not see it or know about it originate in sth to have roots in sth perplex sb - if something perplexes you, it makes you feel confused and worried because it is difficult to understand SYN puzzle persist to continue to exist preoccupy sb - if something preoccupies someone, they think or worry about it a lot recur to happen again remain to continue to exist resolve itself - to find a satisfactory way of dealing with a problem or difficulty SYN solve stem from sth to develop as a result of sth vanish to suddenly stop existing worry sb to be unhappy about something

acute very serious appalling unpleasant, terrible awesome - extremely impressive, serious, or difficult so that you feel great respect, worry, or fear awkward - making you feel embarrassed so that you are not sure what to do or say SYN difficult baffling hard to understand or explain chief main most important compelling - an argument etc that makes you feel certain that something is true or that you must do something about it contentious - causing a lot of argument and disagreement between people SYN controversial continual - constant - continuing for a long time without stopping continuing - to not stop happening, existing, or doing something continuous , continual , discontinue daunting - frightening in a way that makes you feel less confident delicate needing to be dealt with carefully and sensitively depressing making you feel very sad disgusting - extremely unpleasant and making you feel sick SYN revolting endemic - an endemic problem is always present in a particular place, or among a particular group of people explosive - likely to become violent or to cause feelings of violence formidable - very powerful or impressive, and often frightening glaring - obvious - very bad and very noticeable grave - serious incipient - starting to happen or exist insoluble - an insoluble problem is or seems impossible to solve insuperable - an insuperable difficulty or problem is impossible to deal with

insurmountable - an insurmountable difficulty or problem is too large or difficult to deal with intractable - an intractable problem is very difficult to deal with or solve intricate - containing many small parts or details that all work or fit together complex irremediable - so bad that it is impossible to make it better knotty - difficult to solve long-standing - having continued or existed for a long time marginal - a marginal change or difference is too small to be important mundane - ordinary and not interesting or exciting SYN boring niggling - a slight doubt etc that you cannot stop thinking about obstinate - determined not to change your ideas, behaviour, opinions etc, even when other people think you are being unreasonable outstanding - not yet done, solved, or paid : palpable - a feeling that is palpable is so strong that other people notice it and can feel it around them perennial - continuing or existing for a long time, or happening again and again perpetual - continuous perplexing - if something perplexes you, it makes you feel confused and worried because it is difficult to understand SYN puzzle pertinent - directly relating to something that is being considered SYN relevant potential - likely to develop into a particular type of person or thing in the future SYN possible practical - relating to real situations and events rather than ideas, emotions etc theoretical pressing - urgent - needing to be discussed or dealt with very soon profound - having a strong influence or effect recalcitrant - refusing to do what you are told to do, even after you have been punished recent - having happened or started only a short time ago

recurrent - happening or appearing several times recurring happening again redoubtable - someone who is redoubtable is a person you respect or fear severe very bad and serious sticky - made of or covered with a substance that sticks to surfaces striking - unusual or interesting enough to be easily noticed subtle - not easy to notice or understand unless you pay careful attention OPP obvious surface - appearing to be true or real, but not representing what someone really feels or what something is really like tangible - clear enough or definite enough to be easily seen or noticed tangled - or not easy to understand tantalizing - making you feel a desire to have or do something tedious - something that is tedious continues for a long time and is not interesting SYN boring thorny complicated and difficult ticklish - someone who is ticklish laughs a lot when you tickle them timeless -remaining attractive and not becoming old-fashioned touchy - easily becoming offended or annoyed SYN sensitive tricky - something that is difficult to deal with or do because it is complicated and full of problems underlying - the cause, idea etc that is the most important, although it is not easily noticed unforeseen - an unforeseen situation is one that you did not expect to happen unmanageable - to control or deal with vexatious - making you feel annoyed or worried

INFORMATION

absorb - to read or hear a large amount of new information and understand it accumulate to gather some information over a large period of time assemble put parts of sth together assimilate to completely understand and begin to understand some information (dis)believe to doubt, not believe in sth bring forth make appear (cross-)check - to make certain that something is correct by using a different method to check it again compile - to make a book, list, record etc, using different pieces of information, music etc conceal to hide something carefully contribute - to write articles, stories, poems etc for a newspaper or magazine cull - to find or choose information from many different places SYN collate derive - to develop or come from something else disclose - to make something publicly known, especially after it has been kept secret SYN reveal disseminate - to spread information or ideas to as many people as possible distort - to report something in a way that is not completely true or correct distribute - to share things among a group of people, especially in a planned way SYN give out divulge - to give someone information that should be secret SYN reveal extract - to take information or a short piece of writing from a book feed to give some information to somebody file to keep some information in particular place filter - if news, information etc filters somewhere, people gradually hear about it from each other furnish to provide some information

get hold of to find and speak to someone about sth get the gist of understand the main point glean - to find out information slowly and with difficulty gloss over to avoid talking about sth unpleasant impart - to give information, knowledge, wisdom etc to someone issue - to officially make a statement, give an order, warning etc leak - to deliberately give secret information to a newspaper, television company etc process to deal with the information using a computer record - to write information down or store it in a computer or on film so that it can be looked at in the future request - to ask for something in a polite or formal way retrieve - to get back information that has been stored in the memory of a computer set out to express ideas in an organized way sieve to select information sift - to examine information, documents etc carefully in order to find something out or decide what is important and what is not solicit to ask someone for information sort through - to look for something among a lot of similar things, especially when you are arranging these things into an order supply (with) - to provide people with something that they need or want, especially regularly over a long period of time suppress - if important information or opinions are suppressed, people are prevented from knowing about them, even if they have a right to know transmit - to send out electronic signals, messages etc using radio, television, or other similar equipment verify - to state that something is true SYN confirm volunteer - to tell someone something without being asked

withhold - to refuse to give someone something yield - to produce a result, answer, or piece of information accumulate - to gradually increase in numbers or amount until there is a large quantity in one place forthcoming - willing to give information about something be wide off the mark - inaccurate come in to receive information come out if information comes out, people lean about it emanate from sth come out of something leak out - if secret information leaks out, a lot of people find out about it throw light on sth to make sth easier by providing new information about it alarming - making you feel worried or frightened SYN disturbing all-round - good at doing many different things authoritative - an authoritative book, account etc is respected because the person who wrote it knows a lot about the subject awkward difficult to deal with (un)biased - more interested in a particular thing than in another copious - existing or being produced in large quantities detrimental - causing harm or damage SYN harmful, damaging embarrassing - making you feel ashamed, nervous, or uncomfortable entertaining amusing and interesting extensive - containing or dealing with a lot of information and details frivolous - not serious or sensible, especially in a way that is not suitable for a particular occasion gratuitous - said or done without a good reason, in a way that offends someone SYN unnecessary impartial - not involved in a particular situation, and therefore able to give a fair opinion or piece of advice SYN fair

indispensable - someone or something that is indispensable is so important or useful that it is impossible to manage without them SYN essential invaluable extremely useful irresponsible - careless libelous - containing untrue written statements about someone which could make other people have a bad opinion of them slanderous meager - a meagre amount of food, money etc is too small and is much less than you need substantial misleading - likely to make someone believe something that is not true objective based on facts official - approved of or done by someone in authority, especially the government recent - having happened or started only a short time ago relevant - directly relating to the subject or problem being discussed or considered (un)reliable - someone or something that is reliable can be trusted or depended on restricted - estricted information can only be seen or used by a particular group of people because it is secret or dangerous scant not enough (top-)secret - known about by only a few people and kept hidden from others sketchy - not thorough or complete, and not having enough details to be useful slender - small or very limited in amount or size sparse - existing only in small amounts spicy - slightly shocking or rude because it tells about or shows something relating to sex staggering - extremely great or surprising SYN amazing suggestive - a remark, behaviour etc that is suggestive makes you think of sex trustworthy - able to be trusted and depended on unimpeachable - so good or definite that criticism or doubt is impossible