Essay and Plot

Essay

Essay verb - To make an effort to do.

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Plot and essay are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Plot" instead a verb "Essay".

Nearby Words: essayed, essayist, essaying

Plot verb - To engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends.

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Essay and plot are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Essay" instead a verb "Plot".

Nearby Words: plotted, plotting, plotless

good	good essay	good plot
full	full essay	full plot
long	long essay	long plot
particular	particular essay	particular plot
Other adjectives: actual, entire, massive, great, serious, interesting, important, fantastic, basic, different.

This is roughly half the plot of High School Big Shot; the popular Betty seduces bookish anti-hero Marv to get him to write an essay for her; the plan backfires and costs Marv his chance at a scholarship.

Source: The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction
As the essay The Well Tempered Plot Device puts it, this means the writer can try on any daft idea they like with no effect to the comic's continuity.

Source: Unpredictable Results
In his essay "Reply to Professor Haldane", Lewis himself notes the weak point that although "Weston, for the sake of the plot, has to be a physicist, his interests seem to be exclusively biological," and he points out that he was intending the story to be more fantastical than hard sci-fi.

Source: Literature / The Space Trilogy aka: Perelandra

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