Rating | Solver | Clue |
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TRIES | Strives | |
EMULATES | Strives to equal | |
STRIVER | One who strives. | |
AFFECTER | One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. | |
EMULATOR | One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass. | |
BANDY | To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way. | |
PICKTHANK | One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively. |