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asking
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asking
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wanting to know |
| Synonyms: | inquisitive, querying |
| Main Entry: | ask |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | request |
| Synonyms: | angle, appeal, apply, beg, beseech, bite*, bum*, call for, charge, claim, command, contend for, crave, demand, entreat, file for, hit*, hustle*, implore, impose, knock*, levy, mooch, order, petition, plead, pray, promote*, request, requisition, seek, solicit, sue, supplicate, touch*, urge |
| Antonyms: | answer, claim, command, insist, tell |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ask |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | invite |
| Synonyms: | bid, call upon, propose, suggest, summon, urge |
| Antonyms: | disinvite, ignore |
| Main Entry: | request |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | question or petition |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, asking, begging, call, commercial, demand, desire, entreaty, inquiry, invitation, offer, prayer, recourse, requisition, solicitation, suit, supplication |
| Notes: | behest is a stronger term than request |
| Antonyms: | answer, reply |
| Main Entry: | suit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appeal, request |
| Synonyms: | address, application, asking, attention, court, courtship, entreaty, imploration, imprecation, invocation, petition, plea, prayer, requesting, solicitation, soliciting, supplication, wooing |
| Antonyms: | demand, order |
| Main Entry: | soliciting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | solicitation |
| Synonyms: | approaching, asking, canvassing, inviting, petitioning, requesting, seeking |
| Main Entry: | appeal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | request |
| Synonyms: | address, adjure, advance, apply, ask, beg, beseech, bid, call, call upon, claim, contest, crave, demand, entreat, hit on, implore, importune, petition, plead, pray, propose, proposition, question, refer, require, resort to, solicit, strike, submit, sue, supplicate, urge |
| Antonyms: | deny, disclaim, recall, refuse, renounce, retract, revoke |
| Main Entry: | beckon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | call, signal, or lure |
| Synonyms: | allure, ask, attract, bid, coax, command, demand, draw, entice, gesticulate, gesture, invite, motion, nod, pull, sign, summon, tempt, wave |
| Main Entry: | beg |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | request |
| Synonyms: | abjure, advocate, apply to, ask, beseech, besiege, call to, canvass, conjure, crave, desire, entreat, impetrate, implore, importune, invoke, nag, obsecrate, obtest, petition, plead, pray, press, requisition, solicit, sue, supplicate, urge, woo, worry |
| Antonyms: | answer |
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