get-up-and-go vs initiative

get-up-and-go

noun

  • enthusiastic and energetic drive or ambition 

initiative

noun

  • The ability to act first or on one's own. 

  • An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public. 

  • A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem. 

  • A beginning; a first move. 

adj

  • Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary. 

  • In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot. 

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