essay

Definition

Examples

Students must submit a short essay by next Friday.

Word Family

Synonyms

• papera material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
• compositionthe spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole
• articlea distinct section of a treaty or formal contract

Collocations

• Easy short essay
  to short essay, meaning to cheat someone by not returning him enough money
• Medium submit an essay
  to present a document or proposal for consideration regarding an essay
• Hard analytical essay on finance
  describing analytical essay on finance (using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles))
• Very Hard argumentative essay with empirical data
  describing argumentative essay with empirical data (given to or characterized by argument)