Todays word: endeavour

endeavour UK, US endeavor
verb [I + to infinitive]
to try to do something:
Engineers are endeavouring to locate the source of the problem.

endeavour UK, US endeavor
noun [C or U]
an attempt to do something:
In spite of our best endeavours, it has proven impossible to contact her.
Crossing the North Pole on foot was an amazing feat of human endeavour.
artistic endeavour