ADJ
- considerable
- hard
- It took a whole day of hard effort to knock down the wall
- constant, sustained
- extra
- physical
- intellectual, mental
QUANT
- amount
- the amount of effort required
VERB + EFFORT
- demand, need, require, take
- It takes constant effort to become fluent in a language
- devote, expend, put in
- All the team members have put in a great deal of effort
- spare no
- No effort has been spared to make this hotel a welcoming, comfortable place
- be (well) worth
- The walk is difficult but well worth the effort
EFFORT + VERB
- go into
- A lot of effort went into making the costumes
PREP
- with/without ~
- This can be done quickly and with very little effort
ADJ
- all-out, big, brave, determined, enormous, great, herculean, heroic, huge, major, remarkable, special, strenuous, superhuman, tremendous, valiant
- I can see you have made a big effort to clean up
- desperate, frantic
- their frantic efforts to put out the fire
- final, last, last-ditch
- The UN General Secretary flew in in a last-ditch effort to save the talks
- genuine, positive, real, serious
- feeble
- She made a feeble effort to smile, then started crying again
- sporadic
- I make sporadic efforts to sort out my files
- successful
- fruitless, futile, unsuccessful
- collaborative, collective, concerted, cooperative, joint, team
- Students, teachers and families got together in a team effort to decorate the school
- conscious, deliberate
- I have to make a conscious effort to be polite so early in the morning
- voluntary
- The museum relies on the voluntary efforts of enthusiasts
- fund-raising
VERB + EFFORT
- make
- increase, intensify, redouble, renew, step up
- The police have renewed their efforts to find the murderer
- channel, concentrate, focus
- The police channelled their efforts into searching around the river
- fail in
- He failed in h
- resist
- The wound resisted all my efforts to stop it bleeding
- abandon
- be rewarded for, reward
- Her efforts were rewarded when she won an Oscar
- applaud
- The gallery owner applauded the efforts of firefighters to save the exhibits
PREP
- in an/your ~
- The club has changed the rules in an effort to make them fairer
- through sb's ~
- Through their efforts, enough money was raised to buy the equipment
PHRASES
- your best efforts
- Despite our best efforts, we didn't manage to win the match
- a reward for your efforts
- Second prize was a fair reward for his efforts
- make every effort
- We are making every effort to obtain the release of the hostages