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Synonyms for effort
Synonyms for effort: sweat, exploit and try. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for effort
Interchangeable with effort, one per sense
Audited under effort's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one effort carries in that sense.
- sweatnoun, in the sense "use of physical or mental energy"
- exploitnoun, in the sense "a notable achievement"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name effort as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- trytry is a noun in the sense "earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something"
The first group is filed under effort's own senses. The second reaches effort from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
use of physical or mental energy
Digging the trench by hand took hours of effort.
effort in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The team put in extra effort to finish the quarterly report before the deadline.
- She kneaded the dough with steady effort until it grew smooth and elastic.
How it behaves: In this sense effort usually appears as an uncountable noun after verbs like put in, require, or take, often modified by great or considerable.
The true synonym
sweat
Same sentence, swapped: Digging the trench by hand took hours of sweat.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- campaign
- attempt
- hunting
Opposites, in this sense
ease and idleness reverse effort as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of effort takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- ease
- idleness
a notable achievement
The book was her finest effort.
The true synonym
exploit
Same sentence, swapped: The book was her finest exploit.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- smooth
- release
- walk
Where effort turns up in the game
effort is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where effort is the trap
- attemptnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is attack, in the sense "the act of attacking", so effort is there to be ruled out.
- campaignnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is run, in the sense "a race between candidates for elective office", and effort is on the board beside it.
- dangernoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is risk, in the sense "a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury", with effort sitting one tile away.
- performancenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is execution, in the sense "the act of performing", and effort is on the board beside it.
Play effort
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so effort reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from actions at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
effort is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 5. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.