Course and Effort

Course

Course noun - A way of acting or proceeding.

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Effort and course are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Effort" instead a noun "Course".

Nearby Words: coursed, coursing, courser, courseware

Effort noun - The active use of energy in producing a result.

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Course and effort are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Course" instead a noun "Effort".

good	good course	good effort
physical	physical course	physical effort
special	special course	special effort
best	best course	best effort
Other adjectives: particular, reasonable, obvious, actual, entire, real, extreme, huge, personal, major, possible, final, next, last.

And of course the ever present effort of zinesters and Samizdat writers and copiers, anywhere there is something worth saying that someone with power doesn't want said.

Source: Voice of the Resistance
Over the course of an entire season, the Enterprise doggedly and valiantly track the Xindi effort to build and launch their Sealed Death Star in a Can.

Source: You Can't Thwart Stage One
Of course, the effort fails epically — instead of making him straight it makes him Too Kinky to Torture — and of course, he has no serious interest in actually being meaningfully "cured" in the first place.

Source: Cure Your Gays

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