endeavor

(n) - An endeavor is an attempt to do something new or difficult.
(v) - If you endeavor to do something, you try very hard.

• Synonyms 
• nouns: aim, effort, undertaking, venture, a stab
• verbs: attempt, try, plan, aim, focus, zero in on, set your sights on, strive
• Antonyms 
• nouns: laziness, idleness
• verbs: don't try, sit around, be lazy
• Etymology: Early 15th Century, from the phrase put (oneself) in dever meaning "make it one's duty." This is a partial translation of Old French mettre en deveir meaning "put in duty," which comes from Old French dever meaning "duty," which comes from Latin debere meaning "to owe" (which is where we get the word debt)
• Morphology: endeavored - v
• Example:  We are taking on a new endeavor by bringing all of this new technology into our classroom.

Last October, NASA endeavored to move the Space Shuttle Endeavor to its final resting place in the California Science Center in Exposition Park.  It travelled 12 miles from Los Angeles International Airport, through the town of Inglewood, to Exposition Park. It was no easy feat!