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purposeful

 adjective
     
pur‧pose‧ful
having a clear aim or purpose [= determined]:
a purposeful and consistent foreign policy
a purposeful movement
—purposefully adverb:
He walked purposefully to his desk.
—purposefulness noun [uncountable]
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