Pitfall
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a potential problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious. An anti-pattern.
Pit
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To bring into opposition, as in "to pit one's wits against someone".To make pits in.To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A hole in the ground.A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip (Eng.) inside a fruit.A shell in a drupe containing a seed.Area at the auto racetrack used for refueling and repairing the cars during a raceA section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.A mine.A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.A trading pit.
Example sentence: If a man's reputation can be destroyed in an afternoon by a secret kangaroo court, then we, too, can one day be propelled into a pit of everlasting shame by the same process.