Essay and Work

Essay

Essay verb - To make an effort to do.

Usage example: he had been in gymnastics for some time before he even considered essaying that move

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Work and essay are semantically related. in try topic. In some cases you can use "Work" instead the word "Essay" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: essayed, essayist, essaying

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

Usage example: put a lot of work into the project

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Essay and work are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Essay" instead the word "Work" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: works, working, worked, workable, worker

old	old essay	old work
good	good essay	good work
best	best essay	best work
particular	particular essay	particular work
Other adjectives: short, actual, entire, great, serious, important, famous, well-known, final, classic, last, different, modern, literary, published.

His thousand page essay easily trumps Marcus' 500-page one, but while Marcus gets an A on the essay, Jason, for all his work, gets a D, and fifty cents.

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Mark Twain roundly mocked this, and other features of Cooper's work, in his critical essay Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences.

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In George Eliot's essay "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists", she complains of a work supposed to be instructive because "the hero is a Jewish captive".

Source: Made a Slave