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- an ambitious child actor and his even more ambitious mother, who will do anything to get him in commercials
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- cleaning up the vacant lot in one weekend was an ambitious undertaking
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- argumentative,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- combative,
- contentious,
- discordant,
- disputatious,
- gladiatorial,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- warlike
- audacious,
- bold,
- brash,
- brassy,
- bumptious,
- cheeky,
- cocksure,
- cocky,
- confident,
- determined,
- forward,
- impudent,
- insolent,
- overconfident,
- presumptuous,
- unapologetic,
- unsubdued,
- unyielding
- bare-knuckle
- (also bare-knuckled or bare-knuckles),
- feisty,
- scrappy
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The Words of the Week - 7/31/20
The Words of the Week - 7/31/20
Some of the words that defined the week ending July 31, 2020
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“Ambitious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambitious. Accessed 6 Jul. 2022.
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The first known use of ambitious was in the 14th century
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