Effort and Variation

Effort

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

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

Variation noun - A distinct treatment of something (as a story or a play).

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Effort and variation are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Effort" instead a noun "Variation".

Nearby Words: variety, variable, varied, variance, variant

human	human effort	human variation
good	good effort	good variation
special	special effort	special variation
particular	particular effort	particular variation
Other adjectives: considerable, real, extreme, great, serious, little, heroic, possible, less.

In a feminist variation, Golden Age Wonder Woman stories often had her make extra effort to redeem female opponents, far more effort than she would extend to a male baddie.

Source: High-HeelFace Turn
Another variation is when Character A is running away from Character B, who makes almost no onscreen effort to chase him.

Source: Offscreen Teleportation
A variation happens in Jem - where Eric Raymond and The Misfits film and premiere a a big-budget movie solely to upstage Jem's indy effort.

Source: Party Scheduling Gambit

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