Ambition and Effort

Ambition

Ambition noun - Eager desire for personal advancement.

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Effort and ambition are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Effort" instead a noun "Ambition".

Nearby Words: ambitious, ambit, ambitiously

Effort noun - The active use of energy in producing a result.

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Ambition and effort are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ambition" instead a noun "Effort".

human	human ambition	human effort
special	special ambition	special effort
particular	particular ambition	particular effort
genuine	genuine ambition	genuine effort
Other adjectives: sheer, actual, real, big, collective, earnest, extreme, great, intense, little, personal, dedicated, possible, apparent, less, misguided.

After all, anyone who tries to improve the world through active effort is doomed to failure or Karmic Death, because Ambition Is Evil.

Source: Dark Messiah
More than one time he has shown that his true ambition in life is to be useless, not lazy; in fact, he tends to put more effort into creative new ways of avoiding anything resembling a task than any amount that could possibly demanded by said task.

Source: Brilliant, but Lazy

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