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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energy |
| Synonyms: | animation, ardor, birr, dash, drive, effectiveness, endurance, exertion, fire, force, forcefulness, fortitude, get-up-and-go, go, hardihood, initiative, intensity, juice, life, liveliness, might, moxie*, muscle, pep, pizzazz, pluck, potency, power, punch, spirit, stamina, steam, strength, vigor, vim, virility, vitality, zeal, zest, zing, zip |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resource |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supply drawn upon, either material or nonmaterial |
| Synonyms: | ability, appliance, artifice, assets, capability, capital, cleverness, contraption, contrivance, course, creation, device, expedient, fortune, hoard, ingenuity, initiative, inventiveness, makeshift, means, measure, method, mode, nest egg, property, quick-wittedness, recourse, refuge, relief, reserve, resourcefulness, riches, shift, source, step, stock, stockpile, store, stratagem, substance, substitute, support, surrogate, system, talent, way, wealth, worth |
| Antonyms: | product |
| Main Entry: | zeal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | alacrity, ardor, bustle, determination, devotion, diligence, dispatch, drive, eagerness, earnestness, enterprise, fanaticism, fervor, fierceness, fire, gusto, hustle, inclination, initiative, intensity, intentness, keenness, mania, passion, perseverance, push, readiness, sincerity, spirit, stick-to-itiveness, urgency, vehemence, verve, warmth, what-it-takes, yen, zest |
| Notes: | zeal pertains to a keen interest while zest is keen enjoyment or added interest |
| Antonyms: | apathy, indifference, lethargy |
| Main Entry: | prefatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | opening |
| Synonyms: | beginning, initiative, introductory, preliminary |
| Main Entry: | get-up-and-go |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energy |
| Synonyms: | activity, animation, application, ardor, birr, dash, drive, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, endurance, enterprise, exertion, fire, force, forcefulness, fortitude, go, hardihood, initiative, intensity, juice, life, liveliness, might, moxie*, muscle, o |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | get-up-and-go |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drive |
| Synonyms: | ambition, clout, effort, energy, enterprise, fire in belly, goods*, gumption*, guts*, hustle, impellent, impetus, impulse, initiative, momentum, motivation, motive, moxie*, pep, pressure, punch*, push*, right stuff, spunk*, steam, stuff*, vigor, vitali |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inceptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, basic, commencing, earliest, early, elementary, embryonic, first, foremost, fundamental, germinal, headmost, inaugural, inchoate, incipient, infant, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, leading, leadoff, nascent, opening, original, pioneer, virgin |
| Main Entry: | initiatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, basic, commencing, earliest, early, elementary, embryonic, first, foremost, fundamental, germinal, headmost, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, incipient, infant, initial, initiative, introductory, leading, leadoff, nascent, opening, original, pioneer, virgin |
| Main Entry: | leadoff |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, basic, commencing, earliest, early, elementary, embryonic, first, foremost, fundamental, germinal, headmost, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, incipient, infant, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, leading, nascent, opening, original, pioneer, virgin |
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