1 urgent

2 hurried

3 to urge

4 to promote

5 to urge haste

6 close

7 intimate

1 to promote (an idea or cause)

2 to advance

3 boost

1 to promote sales

1 to be beleaguered

1 to induce

2 to promote

3 to urge

4 to impel

5 to bring about

6 to provoke

7 to drive (sb to do sth)

8 to catalyze

9 to actuate

10 to contribute to (some development)

1 to sit side-by-side and have a heart-to-heart talk (idiom)

1 to be cramped in a corner (idiom)

1 to keep a close eye on sb (idiom)

1 beset by poverty and illness (idiom)

1 impatient (idiom); in a hurry

2 itching to get on with it