effort (n.)
- accomplishment
- achievement
- act
- acta
- action
- adventure
- affair
- answer
- application
- approach
- artifice
- assay
- attainment
- attempt
- bid
- blow
- business
- chore
- commitment
- contract
- contrivance
- countermove
- coup
- crack
- creation
- deal
- dealings
- deed
- demarche
- determination
- device
- dodge
- doing
- doings
- endeavor
- energy
- engagement
- enterprise
- essay
- exertion
- expedient
- experiment
- exploit
- feat
- fling
- force
- gambit
- gest
- gimmick
- go
- hand
- handiwork
- improvisation
- job
- labor
- lick
- makeshift
- maneuver
- means
- measure
- might
- move
- muscle
- obligation
- offer
- operation
- pains
- passage
- performance
- plan
- power
- proceeding
- production
- program
- project
- proposition
- puissance
- resolution
- resort
- resource
- shake-up
- shift
- shot
- solution
- stab
- step
- stopgap
- strain
- stratagem
- striving
- stroke
- struggle
- stunt
- tactic
- task
- thing
- toil
- transaction
- travail
- trial
- trick
- trouble
- trump
- try
- turn
- undertaking
- venture
- whack
- while
- work
- works