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Main Entry: initiative
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: eagerness to do something

Synonyms:

action, ambition, drive, dynamism, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, get-up-and-go, gumption*, inventiveness, leadership, moxie*, originality, punch, push, resource, resourcefulness, spunk*, steam, vigor

Antonyms:

indifference, lethargy
Main Entry: ambition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: strong desire for success

Synonyms:

appetite, ardor, aspiration, avidity, craving, desire, drive, eagerness, earnestness, emulation, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, fire in belly, get up and go, hankering*, hope, hunger, initiative, itch, keenness, longing, love, lust, moxie*, passion, pretension, push, right stuff, spirit, striving, thirst, vigor, yearning, zeal

Antonyms:

apathy, contentment, diffidence, humility, indifference, laziness, satisfaction
Main Entry: attack
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: physical assault

Synonyms:

advance, aggression, assailing, assailment, barrage, blitz, blitzkrieg, charge, defilement, dirty deed, drive, encounter, encroachment, foray, incursion, initiative, inroad, intervention, intrusion, invasion, irruption, mugging, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, outbreak, push, raid, rape, rush, skirmish, storming, strike, thrust, violation, volley

Antonyms:

aid, defense, flight, protection, resistance, retreat, shelter, shield, support, surrender, sustenance
Main Entry: drive
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: campaign for cause

Synonyms:

action, advance, appeal, crusade, effort, enterprise, get-up-and-go, initiative, push, surge
Main Entry: drive
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person's will to achieve

Synonyms:

ambition, clout, effort, energy, enterprise, fire in belly, get-up-and-go, goods*, gumption*, guts*, impellent, impetus, impulse, initiative, momentum, motivation, motive, moxie*, pep, pressure, punch*, push*, right stuff, spunk*, steam, stuff*, vigor, vitality, what it takes, zip
Main Entry: energy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person's spirit and vigor

Synonyms:

activity, animation, application, ardor, birr, dash, drive, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, endurance, enterprise, exertion, fire, force, forcefulness, fortitude, get-up-and-go, go, hardihood, initiative, intensity, juice, life, liveliness, might, moxie*, muscle, operativeness, pep, pizzazz, pluck, potency, power, puissance, punch, spirit, spontaneity, stamina, steam, strength, toughness, tuck, vehemence, verve, vim, virility, vitality, vivacity, zeal, zest, zing, zip, élan

Antonyms:

idleness, inactivity, laziness, lethargy, tiredness
Main Entry: enterprise
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: resourcefulness, energy

Synonyms:

activity, adventurousness, alertness, ambition, audacity, boldness, courage, daring, dash, drive, eagerness, enthusiasm, force, foresight, get-up-and-go, gumption, hustle, industry, initiative, inventiveness, pluck, push, readiness, resource, self-reliance, spirit, venturesomeness, vigor, zeal

Antonyms:

apathy, idleness, indolence, passiveness, passivity
Main Entry: incipient
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: developing

Synonyms:

basic, beginning, commencing, elementary, embryonic, fundamental, inceptive, inchoate, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, nascent, originating, start

Antonyms:

developed, grown, mature
Main Entry: initial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: beginning, primary

Synonyms:

antecedent, basic, commencing, earliest, early, elementary, embryonic, first, foremost, fundamental, germinal, headmost, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, incipient, infant, initiative, initiatory, introductory, leading, nascent, opening, original, pioneer, virgin

Antonyms:

closing, final, last
Main Entry: leadership
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: guidance

Synonyms:

administration, authority, capacity, command, conduction, control, conveyance, direction, directorship, domination, foresight, hegemony, influence, initiative, management, pilotage, power, preeminence, primacy, skill, superintendency, superiority, supremacy, sway
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