distress
A2CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
Extreme emotional or physical suffering or discomfort.
I could see she was in some distress, so I paused and let her take her time.
Law noun
The lawful seizure of goods to compel payment of a debt such as rent arrears.
The landlord levied distress on the tenant's stock to recover the unpaid quarter's rent.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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