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noun • the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior • a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music • a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration adjective satellite • causing or able to cause motion • impelling to action | ||||
| 26% | 15 | Finding a logical or sensible reason for something that was initially done without reason | ||
noun • (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening • the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason • (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation • the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency • systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale | ||||
| 26% | 13 | Characteristic that evolves for one reason but later provides an advantage for another reason | ||
noun • An adaptation that evolved in an ancestral population, in which it served a different function | ||||
From Time To Time I Have Reason To Act
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MOTIVE which was last seen in the The Guardian Quiptic crossword.
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MOTIVE
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