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encroach
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ambitious
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ambitious
/æm ˈbɪ ʃəs/
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having a strong desire for success or achievement
ambitious meaning(s)
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- (adj) having a strong desire for success or achievement
- (adj) requiring full use of your abilities or resources
ambitious usage(s) Create your Own
- When Ethel Leginska decided ten years ago that she would be a conductor, musicians and laymen regarded her as an eccentric, a publicity seeker who was ambitious beyond her sex.
- Because it was sufficiently dangerous, popular, newsworthy and, frequently, ambitious to warrant the interest of reviewers.
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ambitiously
/æm ˈbɪ ʃəs li/
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with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner
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ambitiousness
a strong drive for success
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ambivalence
/æm ˈbɪ və ləns/
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mixed feelings or emotions
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ambivalency
mixed feelings or emotions
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ambivalent
/æm ˈbɪ və lənt/
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uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
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ambiversion
(psychology) a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and…
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ambiversive
intermediate between introversive and extroversive
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amble
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a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
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ambler
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someone who walks at a leisurely pace
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ambloplites
a genus of Centrarchidae
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ambloplites rupestris
game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes
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amblygonite
a white or grey mineral consisting of lithium aluminum phosphate; a source…
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amblyopia
visual impairment without apparent organic pathology
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amblyopic
pertaining to a kind of visual impairment without apparent organic pathology
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amblyrhynchus
marine iguanas
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amblyrhynchus cristatus
shore-dwelling seaweed-eating lizard of the Galapagos Islands
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ambo
a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
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amboina pine
native to the Moluccas and Philippines; a source of dammar resin
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amboyna
/æm ˈbɔɪ nə/
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mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus
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amboyna pine
native to the Moluccas and Philippines; a source of dammar resin
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ambrogio damiano achille ratti
pope who signed a treaty with Mussolini recognizing…
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ambrose
/ˈæmb ˌroʊz/
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(Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the…
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ambrose bierce
United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914)