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Crossword-Solution: ESSAY 5 letters, 860 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Essay n. An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the
performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to
benefit a friend.
Essay n. A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually
shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an
essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on
commerce.
Essay n. An assay. See Assay, n.
Essay n. To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to
perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to
try.
Essay n. To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See
Assay.

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ESSAY anagram EASYS

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School writing assignment 1 answer
"A Modest Proposal" e.g. 1 answer
"A literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything": Huxley 1 answer
"An ___ on Man." 1 answer
"Civil Disobedience" is one 1 answer
"How I Spent My Summer Vacation" e.g. 1 answer
"How I Spent My Summer Vacation," maybe 1 answer
"How I Spent My Summer," often 1 answer
"In this ___ I will..." 1 answer
"Me Talk Pretty One Day" piece 1 answer
"Notes of a Native Son" by James Baldwin, e.g. 1 answer
"Notes on Camp" is one 1 answer
"Tatler" offering 1 answer
"The Federalist Papers" piece 1 answer
"The Federalist" component 1 answer
"The Myth of Sisyphus", for example 1 answer
"The New Yorker" piece 1 answer
Short piece of writing on a particular subject 1 answer
Formal composition 1 answer
School assignment that requires an argument 1 answer
A college applicant may have to write one 1 answer
A kind of composition 1 answer
A student may plagiarize one 1 answer
Addison and Steele piece 1 answer
Addison's forte 1 answer
Agnes Repplier's forte. 1 answer
Alexander Pope piece 1 answer
Alexander Pope product 1 answer
Alexander Pope work 1 answer
Alternative to true-false or multiple-choice 1 answer
Analytic work 1 answer
Analytic writing 1 answer
Any of the Federalist Papers 1 answer
Application requirement, maybe 1 answer
Argumentative piece 1 answer
Article in Harper's 1 answer
Article in Harper's or The Atlantic 1 answer
Assignment in English 1 answer
Assignment outsourced to ChatGPT, perhaps 1 answer
Assignment that may have a bibliography 1 answer
Assignment that might have a page limit 1 answer
Assignment that sounds like its third and fourth letters 1 answer
Assignment with an argument 1 answer
Audre Lorde piece 1 answer
Bacon offering 1 answer
Bacon or Lamb product 1 answer
Bacon or Lamb work 1 answer
Bacon output 1 answer
Bacon paper 1 answer
Bacon work 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ESSAY (5)

They were the most ordinary questions—“What was the colour of Mother’s eyes? Which was taller, Father or Mother? Was Mother blonde or brunette? Answer all three questions if possible.” “(A) Write an essay of not less than 40 words on How I spent my last Holidays, or The Characters of Father and Mother compared.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
And look not for allies; I know indeed Such height of insolence was never reached Without abettors or accomplices; Thou hast some backer in thy bold essay, But I will search this matter home and see One man doth not prevail against the State.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Imagine, then, how poorly understood Usenet must be by those outside! No essay on the nature of Usenet can ignore the erroneous impressions held by many Usenet users.
Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992
The creative link for the overview essay as well as for both systems and data was collaborative, and was forged via E-mail and paper mail with professors at Pomona and Bowdoin.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
They did not essay to enter the apartment, but scanned its every corner from where they stood, and then, when their eyes had sought its entire area, a look of fierce rage overspread the features of Matai Shang, and a cold and cunning smile touched the lips of Phaidor.
The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with ESSAY (3)

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ... Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.
Charles M. Schulz
Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.
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Intellectual freedom begins when one says with Socrates that he knows that he knows nothing, and then goes on to add: Do you know what you don’t know and therefore what you should know? If your answer is affirmative and humble, then you are your own teacher, you are making your own assignment, and you will be your own best critic. You will not need externally imposed courses, nor marks, nor diplomas, nor a nod from your boss . . . in business or in politics. (from the essay The Last Don Rag)
Scott M. Buchanan
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,092 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).