striving (n.)
- aim
- ambition
- animus
- aspiration
- combat
- competition
- conflict
- contestant
- counsel
- desideratum
- design
- desire
- determination
- disputant
- effect
- effort
- emulation
- endeavor
- essay
- exertion
- fight
- fighting
- function
- grinding
- hassle
- idea
- intent
- intention
- labor
- meaning
- mind
- motive
- nisus
- plan
- plodding
- point
- project
- proposal
- prospectus
- purpose
- resolution
- resolve
- rivalry
- sake
- strain
- straining
- strife
- struggle
- study
- sweating
- toil
- travail
- trial
- try
- tug-of-war
- undertaking
- view
- warfare
- will
- work
- working
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
