| query | If you e____ something, you try to do it.If you essay something, you try to do it. Sinclair essayed a smile but it could hardly have been rated as a success. His first essay in running a company was a notoriously tough undertaking. |
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| word | essay |
| full-definition | noun An essay is a short piece of writing on one particular subject written by a student . We asked Jason to write an essay about his hometown and about his place in it. An essay is a short piece of writing on one particular subject that is written by a writer for publication . ...Thomas Malthus's essay on population. verb If you essay something, you try to do it. Sinclair essayed a smile but it could hardly have been rated as a success. His first essay in running a company was a notoriously tough undertaking. |
| inflections | essaysessayingessayed |
| cefr-level | A2 |
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