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., aeneas silvius, anemic, aquinas, assay, base, baseball swing, batting, battle, bid, blatancy, blatant, blazing, blue sky law, bridgehead, brinton, call, cardiac massage, conspicuous, crack, crown jewel, cut, daniel garrison brinton, defibrillator, deride, desperate, dominance, dynamism, endeavor, endeavour, end run, enea silvio piccolomini, essay, exhortation, existent, extenuation, family history, fling, foiled, foray, forlorn, fumbling, george iv, give it a try, go, goad, goading, goal, goal-kick, go-around, go for, handicap, have a go, headshot, heart massage, hess, ill-judged, incitement, islamism, knowing, labor, labor movement, lackadaisical, last-ditch, liberation, mitigation, move, nisus, offer, open, outguess, overcompensation, overshoot, pains, pass, pick up the gauntlet, pius ii, play, power play, prance, preposterous, prod, prodding, protestant reformation, quash, raid, rainmaker, rash, reach out, redeployment, redisposition, reformation, research, research effort, revivalism, rudolf hess, ruffle, rush, rushing, saint thomas, saint thomas aquinas, sashay, second-guess, seek, seeking, shot, spiritless, spur, spurring, squeeze, squeeze play, stab, stock buyback, strain, strive, striving, struggle, strut, st. thomas, st. thomas aquinas, studious, swagger, sweep, swing, take a dare, takeover attempt, thomas aquinas, trade union movement, trick, try, try for, unavailing, underhandedly, unskillful, urging, vain, valiant, walther richard rudolf hess, wave-off, whirl

More general:
act, activity, assault, assault and battery, battery, initiate, move, pioneer

More specific:
adventure, batting, battle, best, bid, braving, chance, come through, confronting, contribution, coping with, crack, endeavor, endeavour, essay, fight, fling, foray, gamble, give it a try, give it a whirl, go, grappling, grope, hazard, lay on the line, nisus, offer, pains, part, pass, pick up the gauntlet, play, power play, put on the line, risk, run, run a risk, seeking, share, shot, squeeze, squeeze play, strain, strive, striving, struggle, succeed, tackling, take a chance, take a dare, take chances, takeover attempt, test, trial, whirl, worst

Synonyms:
assay, attack, effort, endeavor, endeavour, essay, seek, set about, try, undertake

Often used in the same context:
attempted, attempting, attempts, contempt, effort, exempt, tries, try, trying



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