The words bear, stand and endure are synonyms, i.e. they have the same meaning, all meaning something like ‘accept or deal with an unpleasant situation’.
Even if words are synonyms, they are not really exactly the same, although the basic meaning is the same. In this case, they are least different as far as the level of formality is concerned. Actually, they do not occur equally frequently in written and in spoken language. Which of them would you guess is the most and the least frequent in spoken language, which the most and the least frequent in written language?
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