1) Affliction 2) Frustrating event 3) French word used in English 4) Trial 5) Visitation 1) Hardship 2) Misery 3) Ordeal 4) Problem 5) Trial 6) Visitation 7) Woe 
• (n.) That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction.
tribulation 1. Something that causes great difficulty, affliction, or distress; such as, an ordeal: 'I have experienced the trials and tribulations of a struggling lexicographer.' 2. An experience that tests one's endurance, patience, or religious faith. 3. Etymology: from Old French tribulacion (12th century), from Late Latin tribulationem, trib...
[SAT terms] an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event