difficulty vs baulk

baulk vs difficulty

difficulty and baulk both are nouns.

difficulty is not a verb while baulk is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
difficulty	Yes	No	No	No
baulk	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, baulk is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, baulk is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than difficulty:

difficulty: the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result
baulk: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

Other hyponyms of difficulty include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, formidability, toughness, burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness, niceness, subtlety, inconvenience, troublesomeness, worriment, problem, trouble, facer, killer, kink, pisser, booby trap, pitfall, snorter, balk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment, wrinkle, bitch, plight, predicament, quandary, rattrap, pinch, fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle, hard time, rough sledding, strain, stress, mire, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficulty (noun)	baulk (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
	the area on a billiard table behind the balkline

difficulty (verb)	baulk (verb)
	refuse to comply

Difference between difficulty and baulk

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