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Obligation: 1. The social force that binds you to your obligations and the courses of action demanded by that force 2. The state of having financial obligations 3. A legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply

Oblivion: 1. The state of being disregarded or forgotten 2. Total forgetfulness

Obnoxious: 1. Causing disapproval or protest

Observed: 1. Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of 2. Make mention of 3. Observe with care or pay close attention to 4. Watch attentively 5. Show respect towards 6. Celebrate, as of holidays or rites 7. Observe correctly 8. Conform one's action or practice to; of appointments, promises, conditions, etc.

Obsession: 1. An irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will 2.That fixed idea that takes us back time and time again to our particular drug or some substitute, to recapture the ease and comfort we once knew (Basic Text Pg.84) 3. The never ending stream of thoughts relating to using drugs, running out of drugs, getting more drugs, and so on (It Works How & Why Pg.6) 4. Is the overwhelming desire to use drugs in spite of possible consequences. (Behind The Walls Pg.7)

Obstinate: 1. Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing 2. Resistant to guidance or discipline 3. Persisting in a reactionary stand

Obvious: 1. Easily perceived or understood 2. Easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind

Omnipotence: 1. The state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power

Ongoing: 1. Currently happening

Only: 1. Exclusive of anyone or anything else 2. And nothing more 3. With nevertheless the final result 5. In the final outcome 6. Except that 7. Never except when 8. As recently as

Open: 1. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed 2. Not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought (see minded)

Opinion: 1. A personal belief that is not founded on proof or certainty 2. A belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people 3. A message expressing a belief about something

or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite

Orient: 1. Determine one's position with reference to another point 2. Cause to point 3. Set or arrange in a new or different determinate position

Oriented: 1. Determine one's position with reference to another point 2. Cause to point 3. Set or arrange in a new or different determinate position 4. Adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination

Originate: 1. Come into existence or develop 2. Bring into being 3. Begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc.

Others: 1. Not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied 2. Further or added 3. Recently past 4. Of the distant past 5. Very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected

Ought: 1. Expresses an emotional, practical, or other reason for doing something 2. Be logically necessary

Our Primary Purpose: 1. To carry the message to the addict who still suffers {see The Message}(Basic Text Pg.65) 2. We Are a society of addicts sharing with others the hope of recovery in Narcotics Anonymous (It Works How & Why Pg.166)

Our: 1. Of or belonging to us

Outrageous: 1. Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror 2. Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation

Over-powering: 1. Overcome by superior force 2. Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli 3. So strong as to be irresistible

Own: 1. Have ownership or possession of 2. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive