ADJ
- driving, great, naked
- She's a woman of driving ambition
- personal
VERB + AMBITION
- have
- He's got little ambition
- lack
AMBITION + VERB
- burn
- Ambition burned within her
ADJ
- big, burning, driving, great, high, main, overriding, ultimate
- Her biggest ambition was to climb Everest
- lifelong, life's, longstanding
- At last he had realized his life's ambition
- modest
- personal
- secret
- youthful
- frustrated, thwarted, unfulfilled
- This is a tale of jealousy and thwarted ambitions
- career, imperial/imperialist, literary, political, presidential, social, sporting, territorial
VERB + AMBITION
- cherish, harbour, have, nurture
- He had only one ambition in life
- abandon, give up
- achieve, fulfil, realize
- limit, restrain
- frustrate, thwart
- He felt great resentment at having his ambition frustrated