Upper-Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #90 of 1319

endeavour (n.)

a serious attempt

Examples

  • A worthy endeavour.

Key rules

  • An endeavour is a serious attempt or project
  • Make an endeavour to do something
  • British spelling is endeavour; American is endeavor

Common mistakes

  • A worthy endeavour to → A worthy endeavour
  • She made an endeavour of learning → She made an endeavour to learn

Use cases

  • Describing projects
  • Writing formal statements
  • Discussing ambitions
💡 Tip: Endeavour is more formal than attempt or effort.
Practise this topic in the appPractise Upper-Intermediate quiz
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