Draft and Effort

Draft

Draft noun - A mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported.

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

Nearby Words: drafted, drafting, draftee, drafter, draftsman

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

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

good	good draft	good effort
high	high draft	high effort
obvious	obvious draft	obvious effort
active	active draft	active effort
Other adjectives: actual, great, serious, little, final, next, last, previous.

Suspected abolitionists, Unionists, draft dodgers, deserters, guerrillas, or people who had not contributed sufficiently to the war effort were regularly rounded up and either arrested or summarily executed.

Source: Useful Notes / The American Civil War
They draft an American, Shears (William Holden), into their effort (he has two valid excuses which, together, the Brits had already used to get him transferred to them).

Source: Film / The Bridge on the River Kwai
Parodied in Gintama where one of Gintoki's ideas for improving a draft of a manga he's writing is to give every single character massive shoulder pads that are almost as long as they are tall, and he puts more effort into designing said shoulder pads then anything else in the manga.

Source: Shoulders of Doom

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