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Essay

An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.

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Broader term 9

Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Attempt 76% connected

To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

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Effort 76% connected

An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…

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Endeavor 76% connected

To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.

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Evaluate 76% connected

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Try 76% connected

To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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Writing 76% connected

of Write

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Manner of action 14

Adventure 76% connected

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.

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Chance 76% connected

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

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Control 76% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Endeavor 76% connected

To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.

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Experiment 76% connected

Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or o…

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Fight 76% connected

To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to…

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Float 76% connected

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…

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Gamble 76% connected

To play or game for money or other stake.

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Grope 76% connected

To feel with or use the hands; to handle.

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Hazard 76% connected

A game of chance played with dice.

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Risk 76% connected

Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.

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Strive 76% connected

To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

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Struggle 76% connected

To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

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Verify 76% connected

To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.

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Narrower term 7

Composition 76% connected

The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.

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Disquisition 76% connected

A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bea…

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Memoir 76% connected

Alt. of Memoirs

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Paper 76% connected

A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wo…

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Report 76% connected

To refer.

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Thanatopsis 76% connected

A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death.

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Theme 76% connected

A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.

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Derivationally related 4

Attempt 74% connected

To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Attempt 74% connected

To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Essayist 74% connected

A writer of an essay, or of essays.

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Essayist 74% connected

A writer of an essay, or of essays.

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See also 2

Assay 66% connected

Trial; attempt; essay.

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Assay 66% connected

Trial; attempt; essay.

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Synonym 7

Assay 92% connected

Trial; attempt; essay.

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Attempt 92% connected

To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Examine 92% connected

To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection o…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prove 92% connected

To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Seek 92% connected

Sick.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Test 92% connected

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Try 92% connected

To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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