Burden
Burden noun - A mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported.
Note
Note noun - A usually brief written reminder.
How words are described
| particular | particular burden | particular note |
| real | real burden | real note |
| serious | serious burden | serious note |
| dark | dark burden | dark note |
| Other adjectives: tragic, mental, additional, lighter. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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She kills herself in her cell, and leaves behind a note saying she doesn't want to be a burden.
Source: Video Game / Gunpoint - Animorphism Author Avatar: Literary critics note that "Samsa" and "Kafka" share strong phonetic similarities, with identical vowel sounds and identical placement of consonant sounds, and Kafka wrote the story out of his fears that his insomnia was a massive burden to his family.
Source: Literature / The Metamorphosis - On a squickier note, Janine Cross's Dragon Temple Saga is set in a Southeast Asia-like world and dragons are like overgrown monitor lizards and are seen as sacred beasts (when they're not crippled and used as beast of burden).
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