| essay | (noun) a tentative attempt | - |
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| (noun) an analytic or interpretive literary composition | - |
| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, seek, try |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: examine, prove, test, try, try out |
| essayer | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: attempter, trier |
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| essayist | (noun) a writer of literary works | Synonyms: litterateur |
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| essence | (noun) a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor | Synonyms: perfume |
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| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, effect, gist |
| (noun) any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted | - |
| essential | (adjective) basic and fundamental | - |
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| (adjective) defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established | Synonyms: substantive |
| (adjective) being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc | - |
| (adjective) of the greatest importance | Synonyms: all-important, all important, crucial, of the essence |
| (adjective) absolutely necessary; vitally necessary | Synonyms: indispensable |
| (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite |
| essentiality | (noun) basic importance | Synonyms: essentialness |
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| essentially | (adverb) in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature | Synonyms: basically, fundamentally |
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| essentialness | (noun) basic importance | Synonyms: essentiality |
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| essonite | (noun) a garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown | Synonyms: cinnamon stone, hessonite |
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