Synonym: article, attempt, composition, experiment, paper, study, test, thesis, try, undertake. Similar words: pass away, vassal, passage, assault, ambassador, mess, less, bless. Meaning: ['eseɪ] 
n. 1. an analytic or interpretive literary composition 2. a tentative attempt. v. 1. make an effort or attempt 2. put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to.
n. 1. an analytic or interpretive literary composition 2. a tentative attempt. v. 1. make an effort or attempt 2. put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to. 
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151. You're making a mountain out of a molehill. You wrote one bad essay - it doesn't mean you're going to fail your exam.
152. I've asked him to give me a couple more days to finish my essay.
153. Note down the main points you want to include in your essay.
154. Start each section of your essay on a new page.
155. He could run off a five-page essay in an hour.
156. The content of your essay is excellent, but it's not very well expressed.
157. Your last essay wasn't up to scratch/didn't come up to scratch.
158. Write the title of your essay on the top line.
159. The last essay I gave him he completely pulled apart.
160. I hurryscurried with the essay which they asked me to write.
161. I won the essay prize(sentencedict.com), then was offered a scholarship: nothing succeeds like success!
162. His essay needs polishing.
163. The essay started interestingly, but failed to follow through .
164. This essay is not of an acceptable standard - do it again.
165. She was up until the small hours of the morning trying to finish her essay.
166. She has been beavering away at that essay for hours.
167. This essay is a definite improvement on your last one. Sentencedict.com
168. You have to answer 3 out of 8 essay questions in the exam.
169. If you leave your essay until the last minute, you'll almost certainly panic.
170. In this essay he has used the same verbs over and over again.
171. The student cobbled together an essay in half an hour.
172. This essay hardly makes any sense , it's neither rhyme nor reason.
173. Give careful thought to how to structure your ideas in the essay.
174. She needs the discipline of having to write an essay every week.
175. She could get that essay done in a couple of hours if she really tried.
176. In an essay of 2000 words, you can pack a lot in.
177. The essay first appeared in an anthology of feminist criticism.
178. She was disappointed to see her essay returned with a mass of corrections in red ink.
179. He thoroughly takes the German national charater apart in the essay.
180. Remember to go over your essay checking for grammar and spelling mistakes before you hand it in to me.