endeavor

noun

1. (US)A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.

verb

1. (US, obsolete)To exert oneself.
2. (US, intransitive)To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.
3. (US, obsolete, transitive)To attempt (something).
4. (US)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 framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.”