Which answer choice would you choose?😂

The word “burdensome” in the passage is closet in meaning to
A.frequent
B.productive
C.difficult
D.well-paid

Passage:
Wherever they took up farming, northern cultivators engaged in agricultural work routines that were far less intense than in the south. The growing season was much shorter, and the cultivation of cereal crops required incessant labor only during spring planting and autumn harvesting. This less【burdensome】work rhythm let many northern cultivators to fill out their calendars with intermittent work as clockmakers, shoemakers, carpenters, and weavers.

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