Difficult
Spartan
Spartan adjective - Providing only the essentials and nothing fancy or luxurious.
Nearby Word: Sparta
Both words in one sentence
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The Spartan Way: The original recruits are trained from a young age to act without emotion, to the point that they would have constant drills and incredibly difficult training exercises as children.
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The Firefight multiplayer mode in Halo 3: ODST and Reach is basically up to four ODSTs or Spartan-IIIs using whatever they have at their disposal to fight off endless waves of Covenant that get progressively more difficult.
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The Spartan Way: Those who wish to become a Vampire General must take the Trials of Initiation, a series of five difficult, randomly-chosen tasks, each the day after the last (excepting holidays) where death is highly likely, and even survival without success results in execution.
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