Burden and Oppression

Burden

Burden noun - A mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported.

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Oppression and burden are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Oppression" instead a noun "Burden".

Nearby Words: burdened, burdensome, burdening

Oppression noun - A state or spell of low spirits.

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Burden and oppression are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Burden" instead a noun "Oppression".

direct	direct burden	direct oppression
unbearable	unbearable burden	unbearable oppression
constant	constant burden	constant oppression
crushing	crushing burden	crushing oppression
Other adjectives: terrible, horrible, cruel, social, spiritual, mental, unnecessary, military, economic.

It comes up in the pre-Scratch troll universe, where there's more of a condescending (and vastly irritating for some) White Man's Burden thing going on rather than outright oppression and culling.

Source: Fantastic Racism / Web Comics
Second, they had both failed to see through Hamil's Obfuscating Stupidity to help him as he does his best to lessen the burden of the people of Hispania under the oppression of The Empire, and only thought of rebellion, going as far as planning to use Hamil as puppet.

Source: My Greatest Failure
White Man's Burden: Ryan is always going on crusades to get rid of "white male oppression" and "benefit" American minorities, much to the annoyance of Mike and people that actually belong to the minority groups, like the Larabees.

Source: Series / Last Man Standing

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