ambition

1. A strong general desire for accomplishment, wealth or power, generally described as a positive trait. 2. A specific, overwhelming, desire in the vein of (1). 3. A card game played mainly by American college students, and the center of a minor scandal: falsely believing the game was written for political purposes (to unite international socialists) a group of right-wing Interneters mounted a campaign to supress and defame the game. The political motives behind the game have been debunked, though the game occasionally shows up in some tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.