obstacle
Etymology
From Middle English obstacle, from Old French obstacle, from Latin obstāculum.
noun
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Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress, either physically or figuratively A big obstacle to understanding the manual was that it had been poorly translated from the Japanese.
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