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required by rule; "in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading"
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absolute
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binding
,
choiceless
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coactive
,
compelling
,
compulsatory
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compulsive
,
conclusive
,
constraining
,
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,
decretory
,
dictated
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driving
,
entailed
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exigent
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final
,
hard-and-fast
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without appeal
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absolute
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binding
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called for
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compulsatory
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conclusive
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de rigueur
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indicated
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indispensable
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inevitable
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involuntary
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irreducible
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irreplaceable
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prescript
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prescriptive
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requisite
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ultimate
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unforgoable
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vital
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wanted
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without appeal
mandatory
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absolute
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authoritative
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binding
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canonical
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choiceless
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commanded
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commanding
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compelling
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conclusive
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de rigueur
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demanded
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didactic
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essential
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exigent
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final
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formulary
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hard and fast
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instructive
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official
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peremptory
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preceptive
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prescribed
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prescript
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prescriptive
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regulation
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required
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requisite
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rubric
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standard
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statutory
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ultimate
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urgent
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without appeal
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without choice
compulsive
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a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things
strongly motivated to succeed
caused by or suggestive of psychological compulsion; "compulsive drinking"
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accordant
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anal
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automatic
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blind
,
bourgeois
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coactive
,
coercive
,
compelling
,
compulsatory
,
compulsory
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concordant
,
conditioned
,
conformist
,
constrained
,
constraining
,
conventional
,
corresponding
,
driving
,
forced
,
forceful
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formalistic
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gripping
,
harmonious
,
holding
,
impelling
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imperative
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imperious
,
impulsive
,
in accord
,
in keeping
,
in line
,
in step
,
instinctive
,
involuntary
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irresistible
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kosher
,
mechanical
,
obsessing
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obsessional
,
obsessive
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orthodox
,
overwhelming
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pedantic
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plastic
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possessing
,
precisianistic
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preoccupying
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pressing
,
reflex
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reflexive
,
restraining
,
square
,
straight
,
stuffy
,
traditionalist
,
unconscious
,
unintentional
,
unthinking
,
unwilled
,
unwilling
,
unwitting
,
uptight
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urgent
imperious
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able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand"
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U
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absolute
,
absolutist
,
absolutistic
,
acute
,
arbitrary
,
aristocratic
,
arrogant
,
authoritarian
,
authoritative
,
autocratic
,
binding
,
bossy
,
clamorous
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coactive
,
compelling
,
compulsatory
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compulsive
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compulsory
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constraining
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critical
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crucial
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crying
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de rigueur
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despotic
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dictatorial
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domineering
,
driving
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dynastic
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elitist
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exigent
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feudal
,
grinding
,
heavy-handed
,
high and mighty
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high-handed
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high-pressure
,
high-priority
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hubristic
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imperative
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imperatorial
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imperatorious
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imperial
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insistent
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instant
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irresistible
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kinglike
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kingly
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lordly
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magisterial
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magistral
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majestic
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mandatory
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masterful
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monarchal
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monarchial
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monarchic
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monocratic
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must
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necessary
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obligatory
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oppressive
,
overbearing
,
overruling
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peremptory
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pivotal
,
pressing
,
princelike
,
princely
,
purple
,
queenlike
,
queenly
,
regal
,
repressive
,
required
,
restraining
,
royal
,
severe
,
sovereign
,
strict
,
stringent
,
suppressive
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tyrannical
,
tyrannous
,
urgent
pressing
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a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press
compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair"
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abetment
,
actuating
,
acute
,
animating
,
blandishment
,
burning
,
buttonholing
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
causal
,
causative
,
clamant
,
clamorous
,
coactive
,
coaxing
,
compelling
,
compulsatory
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compulsive
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compulsory
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concentration
,
constraining
,
critical
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crucial
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crying
,
decoction
,
demanding
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directive
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distillation
,
draining
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driving
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dunning
,
encouragement
,
exacting
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exigent
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exorbitant
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expression
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extortionate
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goading
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grasping
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grave
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high-pressure
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high-priority
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impelling
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imperative
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imperious
,
important
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importunate
,
importunateness
,
importunity
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impulsive
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inducive
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infusion
,
insistence
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insistent
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instance
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instant
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irresistible
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loud
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major
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momentous
,
motivating
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motivational
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motive
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moving
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nagging
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needling
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persistent
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pertinacious
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pestering
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pivotal
,
plaguing
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plying
,
portentous
,
pressure
,
pricking
,
prodding
,
profound
,
rendering
,
rendition
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restraining
,
serious
,
significant
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soaking
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spurring
,
squeezing
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steeping
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taxing
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teasing
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urgency
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urgent
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urging
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vital
,
wheedling
driving
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the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
having the power of driving or impelling; "a driving personal ambition"; "the driving force was his innate enthusiasm"; "an impulsive force"
acting with vigor; "responsibility turned the spoiled playboy into a driving young executive"
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acid
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action
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active
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actuating
,
advancing
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adventuresome
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adventurous
,
agency
,
aggressive
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ambitious
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animating
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assailing
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assaulting
,
attacking
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automobiling
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bicycling
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biking
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biting
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blinding
,
busing
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cat-and-doggish
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causal
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causative
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charging
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coactive
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compelling
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compulsatory
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compulsive
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compulsory
,
conduct
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constraining
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corrosive
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cutting
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cycling
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direction
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directive
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drippy
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drizzling
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drizzly
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drumming
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dynamic
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effective
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enterprising
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equitation
,
execution
,
exercise
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forceful
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forcible
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functioning
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go-ahead
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gripping
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gutsy
,
handling
,
holding
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horseback riding
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horsemanship
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hustling
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impellent
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impelling
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imperative
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imperious
,
impressive
,
impulsive
,
in motion
,
incisive
,
incursionary
,
incursive
,
inducive
,
invading
,
invasionary
,
invasive
,
irresistible
,
irruptive
,
lively
,
management
,
manipulation
,
misty
,
misty-moisty
,
mizzly
,
mobile
,
mordant
,
motile
,
motivating
,
motivational
,
motive
,
motor
,
motorcycling
,
motoring
,
moving
,
nervous
,
obsessing
,
obsessional
,
obsessive
,
occupation
,
operancy
,
operation
,
pedaling
,
pelting
,
penetrating
,
performance
,
performing
,
piercing
,
pluvial
,
pluviose
,
pluvious
,
poignant
,
possessing
,
pouring
,
powerful
,
practice
,
preoccupying
,
pressing
,
propellant
,
propelling
,
propulsive
,
propulsory
,
pulsive
,
punchy
,
pushful
,
pushing
,
pushy
,
rainy
,
responsibility
,
restraining
,
riding
,
running
,
sensational
,
shoving
,
showery
,
sinewed
,
sinewy
,
slashing
,
steering
,
stirring
,
streaming
,
striking
,
strong
,
telling
,
thrusting
,
transitional
,
traveling
,
trenchant
,
up-and-coming
,
urgent
,
venturesome
,
venturous
,
vigorous
,
vital
,
work
,
working
,
workings
irresistible
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overpoweringly attractive; "irresistible beauty"
impossible to resist; overpowering; "irresistible (or resistless) impulses"; "what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?"
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absolute
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adducible
,
admissible
,
alluring
,
appealing
,
appetizing
,
armipotent
,
attestative
,
attestive
,
attractive
,
authentic
,
authoritative
,
based on
,
beguiling
,
bewitching
,
blandishing
,
cajoling
,
captivating
,
catching
,
certain
,
charismatic
,
charming
,
circumstantial
,
coactive
,
coaxing
,
cogent
,
come-hither
,
compelling
,
comprehensive
,
compulsatory
,
compulsive
,
compulsory
,
conclusive
,
consequential
,
considerable
,
constraining
,
convincing
,
coquettish
,
cumulative
,
damning
,
decisive
,
deep
,
delightful
,
determinative
,
documentary
,
documented
,
driving
,
dynamic
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effective
,
enchanting
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energetic
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engaging
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enravishing
,
enthralling
,
enticing
,
entrancing
,
evidential
,
evidentiary
,
ex parte
,
exciting
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exhaustive
,
exotic
,
exquisite
,
eye-witness
,
factual
,
fascinating
,
fated
,
fateful
,
fetching
,
final
,
firsthand
,
flirtatious
,
forceful
,
forcible
,
founded on
,
full
,
glamorous
,
grand
,
grave
,
great
,
grounded on
,
hearsay
,
heart-robbing
,
heavy
,
high-potency
,
high-powered
,
high-pressure
,
high-tension
,
hypnotic
,
impenetrable
,
imperative
,
imperious
,
implicit
,
impregnable
,
in force
,
in power
,
incontestable
,
incontrovertible
,
indefeasible
,
indicative
,
indisputable
,
indomitable
,
ineluctable
,
inescapable
,
inevasible
,
inevitable
,
inexorable
,
inexpugnable
,
inflexible
,
insuperable
,
intense
,
interesting
,
intriguing
,
invincible
,
inviolable
,
inviting
,
invulnerable
,
irrefutable
,
irrepressible
,
irrevocable
,
lovely
,
luxurious
,
main
,
material
,
maximum
,
mesmeric
,
mighty
,
mighty in battle
,
mouth-watering
,
necessary
,
nuncupative
,
operative
,
overpowering
,
overriding
,
overwhelming
,
piquant
,
plenary
,
potent
,
powerful
,
prepossessing
,
prepotent
,
pressing
,
presumptive
,
probative
,
provocative
,
provoquant
,
puissant
,
ravishing
,
relentless
,
reliable
,
resistless
,
restraining
,
ruling
,
seducing
,
seductive
,
sensuous
,
serious
,
significant
,
siren
,
sirenic
,
spellbinding
,
spellful
,
striking
,
strong
,
suggestive
,
sure
,
sure as death
,
sure as fate
,
symptomatic
,
taking
,
tantalizing
,
teasing
,
telling
,
tempting
,
thrilling
,
tickling
,
titillating
,
titillative
,
total
,
unassailable
,
unavoidable
,
unbearable
,
unbeatable
,
unconquerable
,
uncontrollable
,
undeflectable
,
ungovernable
,
unmanageable
,
unpreventable
,
unstoppable
,
unsubduable
,
unsurmountable
,
unyielding
,
valid
,
vigorous
,
vital
,
voluptuous
,
weighty
,
winning
,
winsome
,
witching
obligation
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a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply
a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor
the state of being obligated to do or pay something; "he is under an obligation to finish the job"
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accountability
,
accounts payable
,
accounts receivable
,
act of grace
,
act of kindness
,
affair
,
agreement
,
allegiance
,
amount due
,
appreciation
,
appreciativeness
,
aptitude
,
aptness
,
arrearage
,
assigned task
,
attempt
,
bad debts
,
benefaction
,
benefit
,
benevolence
,
benignity
,
bill
,
bills
,
blessing
,
bond
,
borrowing
,
boundary condition
,
bounden duty
,
burden
,
business
,
call
,
call of duty
,
catch
,
cause
,
chance
,
charge
,
charges
,
chits
,
clause
,
coaction
,
commitment
,
committal
,
compulsatory
,
compulsion
,
compulsiveness
,
compulsoriness
,
compulsory
,
condition
,
constraint
,
contingency
,
contract
,
courtesy
,
covenant
,
deal
,
debt
,
dedication
,
deference
,
demand
,
devoir
,
devotion
,
donnee
,
due
,
dues
,
duress
,
duties and responsibilities
,
duty
,
effort
,
enforcement
,
engagement
,
enterprise
,
escalator clause
,
escape clause
,
escape hatch
,
ethics
,
eventuality
,
favor
,
fealty
,
financial commitment
,
fine print
,
floating debt
,
forcing
,
funded debt
,
given
,
good deed
,
good offices
,
good turn
,
grace
,
gratefulness
,
gratitude
,
grounds
,
homage
,
imperative
,
imperious
,
indebtedness
,
indebtment
,
inevitability
,
irresistibility
,
joker
,
kicker
,
kind deed
,
kind offices
,
kindly act
,
kindness
,
labor of love
,
liability
,
liableness
,
likelihood
,
likeliness
,
limiting condition
,
line of duty
,
loyalty
,
mandatedness
,
mandatoriness
,
maturity
,
mercy
,
mission
,
mitzvah
,
must
,
national debt
,
necessariness
,
necessitation
,
necessitude
,
necessity
,
need
,
obligatoriness
,
obligatory
,
obligement
,
office
,
onus
,
operation
,
ought
,
outstanding debt
,
parameter
,
part
,
place
,
plan
,
pledge
,
possibility
,
preengagement
,
prerequisite
,
probability
,
program
,
project
,
promise
,
proneness
,
proposition
,
provision
,
provisions
,
proviso
,
public debt
,
recognizance
,
required
,
requirement
,
requisite
,
respect
,
responsibility
,
restraint
,
right
,
saving clause
,
score
,
self-imposed duty
,
sense of obligation
,
service
,
sine qua non
,
small print
,
specification
,
stipulation
,
string
,
task
,
terms
,
thankfulness
,
trust
,
turn
,
ultimatum
,
uncollectibles
,
understanding
,
undertaking
,
unfulfilled pledge
,
venture
,
verbal agreement
,
weakness
,
whereas
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