MOTIVATE, MOTIVATED, MOTIVATION
ADJECTIVES
► UP FOR IT motivated to do something → 1880s African-American sl.
INTERJECTIONS
► UP AND AT IT! an exclamation of encouragement or motivation → 1996 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► PUSH FACTOR a feature that makes something attractive or liable to rejection; also, a motivating factor, an impetus → 1938
NOUNS – PERSON
► MOTO a motivated self-starter → 1993 US sl.
VERBS
► AMBITIONIZE to make ambitious, to motivate → 1600 obs.
► FIRE UP to motivate; to make enthusiastic → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► SPRING to motivate, to inspire → 1843 obs.
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