Meanings (ES + gloss)
actividad • destajo • empeño • emprendimiento • empresa • esfuerzo • iniciativa • intento • proyecto • tentativa
A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.
My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in an…
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
empeñarse • esforzarse • pretender • procurar
To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.
empeñarse
To work with purpose.
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framewor…
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