Learners frequently encounter challenges in accurately utilizing near-synonyms in the English language. This investigation explored the similarities and differences among four near-synonymous verbs: "attempt, endeavor, strive," and "try." The analysis encompassed their prevalence across diverse genres, formality levels, collocational patterns, semantic preferences, semantic prosody, and colligations, utilizing linguistic data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) for examination. Statistical measures, including frequency, MI scores, corpus-based judgment, and linguistic research tools like the UCREL Semantic Analysis System (USAS), were employed to scrutinize the similarities and variances. The findings have shown that although the four near-synonymous verbs share surface-level resemblances in meaning and certain characteristics, they also manifest distinct and unique features. In summary, "try" markedly differs from other near-synonyms in terms of genre distribution and degree of formality, while "strive" is distinguished by its unique colligational pattern. Among the six criteria used to differentiate the four near-synonyms, their semantic preferences exhibit the most significant differences. Although the four near-synonyms share some collocations and have others that are unique to each term, an analysis of semantic preferences has revealed the semantic distinctions preferred by each near-synonym. Consequently, these four target verbs are not interchangeable in particular contexts.