Emotions
Synonyms for ambition
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
a cherished desire
His ambition is to own his own business.
The true synonym
dream
Same sentence, swapped: His dream is to own his own business.
Close but different
These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for ambition as it is used in the sentence above.
- urge
- wishing
- enterprise
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Closest first: other emotions words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
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