He climbed up the mountain with great difficulty.

Meaning: This means that someone moved up a large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level using their hands and feet in a way that required a lot of effort.

Choice of Words: Climb means to move up or down a steep surface using your hands and feet, mountain is a large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level, and difficulty means the quality of being difficult. When you put them together, it means you moved up a large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level using your hands and feet in a way that required a lot of effort.

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The boy struggled to ascend the towering peak.

Meaning: This means that the boy found it difficult to climb to the top of the very tall mountain.

Choice of Words: Boy is a young male child. Struggled means to make a great effort to do something. Ascend means to move upwards. Towering means very tall. Peak is the highest point of a mountain. When you put them together, "The boy struggled to ascend the towering peak" means that the young male child made a great effort to move upwards on the very tall highest point of a mountain.

With arduous effort, he scaled the formidable mountain.

Meaning: This means that he used a lot of energy and effort to climb the mountain that was difficult and caused fear or respect.

Choice of Words: Arduous means involving or requiring a lot of effort or energy. Effort is the use of physical or mental energy to do something. Scaled means to climb something. Formidable means causing fear or respect because of its size, power, or difficulty. Mountain is a large natural elevation of the earth's surface. When you put them together, "With arduous effort, he scaled the formidable mountain" means that he used a lot of energy and effort to climb the mountain that caused fear or respect because of its size, power, or difficulty.

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