Hard
Hard adjective - Requiring considerable physical or mental effort.
Usage example: a hard exam to pass
Smooth
Smooth adjective - Involving minimal difficulty or effort.
Usage example: it should be smooth going from this point on
Both words in one sentence
- Many common words with hard consonantal stops receive an added vowel syllable to smooth the pronunciation, while also dropping hard syllables as normal, seemingly shuffling the word's letters.
Source: Useful Notes / American Accents -
Many tile-based GPUs also included special circuitry for the smooth scrolling (where the image shifts one pixel each time that is), which is notoriously hard to do entirely in software.
Source: Useful Notes / Video RAM -
And while controlling Lara remains as smooth as in its predecessor, platforming is sometimes made unnecessarily hard by an uncooperative camera.
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