Compulsive: alternatives and connections

Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.

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Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.

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Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease.

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Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease.

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One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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One who, or that which, flashes.

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One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinle…

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The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force.

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The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force.

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of Determine

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of Drive

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