exigency
61pressure — I noun anxiety, anxiousness, brunt, brute force, burden, coercion, compulsion, constraining force, constraint, controlling power, crisis, drive, duress, encumbrance, exertion, exhortation, exigency, force, hardship, heaviness, hindrance,… …
62requirement — I noun adjuration, behest, bidding, call, claim, command, commandment, compulsion, conscription, constraint, decree, decretal, demand, dictate, direction, directive, edict, enforcement, enjoinment, essential, essential desideratum, exaction,… …
63circumstance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Concomitant condition Nouns 1. circumstance, situation, condition, case, phase, position, posture, attitude, place, environment; footing, standing, status, state; occasion, eventuality, juncture,… …
64difficulty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) That which is hard to overcome Nouns 1. difficulty, hardness, impracticability, hard work, uphill work, hurdle; hard task, Herculean task, large order, hard row to hoe; task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor; …
65juncture — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. joint, point, connection; contingency, emergency. See junction, circumstance, occasion. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. point in time, crossroads, turning point, meeting point; see circumstance 1 , crisis ,… …
66requirement — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. want, necessity;the necessary or requisite; requisition, demand; needfulness, essentiality, indispensability; urgency, exigency, sine qua non, matter of life and death. See compulsion, command. II… …
67urgency — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. exigency, need, gravity, seriousness; see importance 1 , necessity 3 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. matter of life or death, emergency, crisis, extremity, exigency …
68Circumstance — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Circumstance >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 circumstance circumstance situation phase position posture attitude place point Sgm: N 1 terms terms Sgm: N 1 regime regime Sg …
69exigent — 1660s, urgent, a back formation from EXIGENCY (Cf. exigency) or else from L. exigentem (nom. exigens), prp. of exigere to demand (see EXACT (Cf. exact) (v.)) …
70occasion — I. n. 1. Occurrence, incident, casualty, event. 2. Opportunity, convenience, juncture, conjuncture, opening, suitable time, favorable time, nick of time, golden opportunity. 3. Necessity, need, exigency, requirement, want. 4. Cause (incidental),… …
