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Try :: Try (v. t.) To essay; to attempt; to endeavor.

Affectation :: Affectation (n.) An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.

Deceit :: Deceit (n.) An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud..

Snatch :: Snatch (v. i.) To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope..

Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.

Suit :: Suit (n.) The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor.

Vain :: Vain (superl.) Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt..

Court :: Court (v. t.) To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.

Conatus :: Conatus (n.) A natural tendency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort.

Fight :: Fight (v. i.) To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against..

Chop :: Chop (v. i.) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.

Laissez Faire :: Laissez faire () Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government..

Attempt :: Attempt (v. i.) To make an attempt; -- with upon.

Guess :: Guess (n.) An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise..

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

Counterplot :: Counterplot (v. t.) To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem..

Hockey :: Hockey (n.) A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals..

Enemy :: Enemy (n.) One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood..

Assay :: Assay (v.) To try; to attempt; to apply.

Endeavor :: Endeavor (v. t.) To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.

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