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| NOUN | 1 | effort, attempt, endeavor, endeavour, try | Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something |
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| 2 | effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat | Use of physical or mental energy | |
| 3 | effort, campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement | A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | |
| 4 | effort, deed, feat, exploit | A notable achievement |
| Sounds | eh'fert |
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| Rhymes | Albert, alert, assert, and 68 more rhymes in ert... |
| Meaning | Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something. |
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| Examples | "made an effort to cover all the reading material" |
| Synonyms | attempt, endeavor, endeavour, try |
| Broader | activity |
| Narrower | batting; best; worst; bid, play; crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer; essay; foray; contribution, part, share; liberation; mug's game; power play, squeeze play, squeeze; seeking; shot, stab; shot; striving, nisus, pains, strain; struggle, battle; takeover attempt; test, trial, run; test, trial |
| Meaning | Use of physical or mental energy. Hard work. |
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| Examples | "he got an A for effort" |
| Synonyms | elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat |
| Broader | labor, labour, toil |
| Narrower | struggle; trouble, difficulty; least effort, least resistance; strain, straining; exercise, exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout; pull; application, diligence; overkill; supererogation; overexertion; friction, detrition, rubbing |
| Meaning | A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end. |
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| Examples | "contributed to the war effort" |
| Synonyms | campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement |
| Broader | venture |
| Narrower | advertising campaign, ad campaign, ad blitz; anti-war movement; charm campaign; consumerism; campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign; fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort; feminist movement, feminism, women's liberation movement, women's lib; gay liberation movement, gay lib; lost cause; reform; war; youth movement, youth crusade |
| Meaning | A notable achievement. |
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| Examples | "the book was her finest effort" |
| Synonyms | deed, feat, exploit |
| Broader | accomplishment, achievement |
| Narrower | acquiring, getting; causing, causation; delivery, obstetrical delivery; departure, going, going away, leaving; derring-do; discovery, find, uncovering; disposal, disposition; hit; implementation, effectuation; egress, egression, emergence; equalization, equalisation, leveling; exhumation, disinterment, digging up; mitzvah, mitsvah; propulsion, actuation; rally, rallying; recovery, retrieval; running away; stunt; touch, touching; tour de force |
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