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Reattempt :: Reattempt (v. t.) To attempt again.

Entry :: Entry (n.) The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking..

Coquetry :: Coquetry (n.) Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love..

Treason :: Treason (n.) The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery..

Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet..

Flinch :: Flinch (v. i.) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet..

Frustrate :: Frustrate (v. t.) To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose..

Suit :: Suit (n.) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery..

Compounder :: Compounder (n.) One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish, ends by compromises..

Embrace :: Embrace (n.) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court..

Ineffectual :: Ineffectual (a.) Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient; weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; an ineffectual expedient..

Dare :: Dare (v. t.) To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.

Vortex :: Vortex (n.) A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices..

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.

Attentat :: Attentat (n.) An attempt; an assault.

Proffer :: Proffer (v. t.) To essay or attempt of one's own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake..

Tribune :: Tribune (n.) An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls..

Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with Who comes there?.

Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass..

Precipitous :: Precipitous (a.) Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts..

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