noun
1 keenness and willingness to do sth
ADJECTIVE
▪ great , high , powerful , strong
▪
students with high ~
▪
his strong ~ to succeed
▪ positive
▪ low , poor
▪ extra
▪ student
▪ individual , personal
▪ human
▪ internal , intrinsic
VERB + MOTIVATION
▪ have
▪
Many of the boys have very poor ~.
▪ lack
▪ lose
▪
By this time the children had lost all their ~ for writing poetry.
▪ generate , provide
▪
high rewards that generate the necessary ~ in the workers
▪ enhance , improve , increase , strengthen
▪ reduce
▪ maintain
PHRASES
▪ a lack of ~
▪ level of ~
▪
students who have a low level of ~
2 a reason for doing sth
ADJECTIVE
▪ main , major , primary , prime
▪ only , sole
▪ real , true
▪ original
▪ underlying
▪ unconscious
▪ great , powerful , strong
▪ economic , moral , political , psychological , religious , sexual
VERB + MOTIVATION
▪ have
▪
They had very different ~s for creating the work.
▪ understand
▪ question
▪ explain
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ for
▪
his main ~ for supporting the government
▪ ~ in
▪
my main ~ in making the suggestion
▪ ~ behind
▪
the primary ~ behind the government's intervention