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desire
desire · want · will · wish · urge · craving
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • Her desire to be a doctor spurred her on.

  • My wife is possessed with the desire to buy a house.

  • These children are born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

  • A high household savings rate in Japan is attributed, among other things, to people's desire to save money to buy a home.

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