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ardor collapse: feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor"; intense feeling of love; a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause); "they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor"; "he felt a kind of religious zeal"

quest collapse: the act of searching for something; "a quest for diamonds"; seek alms, as for religious purposes; search the trail of (game); "The dog went off and quested"; make a search (for); "Things that die with their eyes open and questing"; "The animal came questing through the forest"

junket collapse: a trip taken by an official at public expense; dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet

self-absorption collapse: preoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else

want collapse: wish or demand the presence of; "I want you here at noon!"; have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"; hunt or look for; want for a particular reason; "Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you"; be without, lack; be deficient in; "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter"

mellowness collapse: geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana; a soft shade of a color; "a mellowness of light and shade not attainable in marble"; a taste (especially of fruit) that is ripe and of full flavor; kindheartedness through maturity or old age

prowl collapse: the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner); move about in or as if in a predatory manner; "The suspicious stranger prowls the streets of the town"; loiter about, with no apparent aim

reveler collapse: a celebrant who shares in a noisy party; "the clubs attract revelers as young as thirteen"

self-contained collapse: constituting a complete and independent unit in and of itself; "the university is like a self-contained city with shops and all amenities"

grateful collapse: feeling or showing gratitude; "a grateful heart"; "grateful for the tree's shade"; "a thankful smile"; affording comfort or pleasure; "the grateful warmth of the fire"

revel collapse: unrestrained merrymaking; celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!"

greedy collapse: wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume; "don't be greedy with the cookies"

rewarding collapse: providing personal satisfaction; "a rewarding career as a paramedic"

grand tour collapse: a sightseeing tour of a building or institution; an extended cultural tour of Europe taken by wealthy young Englishmen (especially in the 18th century) as part of their education

free will collapse: the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies

greed collapse: excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves

id collapse: (psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity; a card or badge used to identify the bearer; "you had to show your ID in order to get in"

pursuit collapse: the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit"; a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria; "the pursuit of love"; "life is more than the pursuance of fame"; "a quest for wealth"

ambition collapse: a strong drive for success; a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business"; have as one's ambition

superego collapse: (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience

conscience collapse: conformity to one's own sense of right conduct; "a person of unflagging conscience"; a feeling of shame when you do something immoral; "he has no conscience about his cruelty"; motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions

search collapse: an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"; boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search"; the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone; the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"; an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property; "they wrote a program to do a table lookup"; try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"; subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"; search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"

persona collapse: (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"

discretion collapse: the trait of judging wisely and objectively; "a man of discernment"; knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress; "the servants showed great tact and discretion"; freedom to act or judge on one's own

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