I. verb
Synonyms: try 5, assay, attempt, endeavor, offer, seek, strive, struggle, undertake
Related Word: venture; labor, toil, travail, work
Idioms: give it a try ( or fling or go), have at it, make a stab at, take a crack ( or whack) at
II. noun
1.
Synonyms: attempt , endeavor, hassle, striving, struggle, trial, try, undertaking
Related Word: exertion; labor, toil, travail, work; go, venture
2.
a relatively brief discourse written for others' reading or consideration
an essay on free will
Synonyms: article, composition, paper, theme
Related Word: discourse, discussion, explication, exposition, study; piece; tract, treatise; dissertation, thesis