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  • attempt β€” If you make an attempt to do something, you try to do it, often without success.
  • predict β€” to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
  • anticipate β€” If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
  • want β€” to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
  • necessitate β€” to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
  • go through β€” to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • scan β€” to glance at or over or read hastily: to scan a page.
  • investigate β€” to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • sift β€” to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
  • scout β€” a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
  • scour β€” to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
  • scrutinize β€” to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
  • check β€” Check is also a noun.
  • purchase β€” to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • buy β€” If you buy something, you obtain it by paying money for it.
  • discover β€” to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
  • snoop β€” to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
  • linger β€” to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave: We lingered awhile after the party.
  • hang β€” to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • delay β€” If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
  • remain β€” to continue in the same state; continue to be as specified: to remain at peace.
  • stand by β€” a staunch supporter or adherent; one who can be relied upon.
  • stick around β€” to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • count on β€” If you count on something or count upon it, you expect it to happen and include it in your plans.
  • foresee β€” to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • assume β€” If you assume that something is true, you imagine that it is true, sometimes wrongly.
  • await β€” If you await someone or something, you wait for them.
  • forecast β€” to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • see β€” to perceive with the eyes; look at.
  • anticipate β€” If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
  • attend β€” If you attend a meeting or other event, you are present at it.
  • stay β€” (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
  • predict β€” to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
  • take β€” to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • think β€” to seem or appear (usually used impersonally with a dative as the subject).
  • require β€” to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
  • call for β€” If you call for someone, you go to the building where they are, so that you can both go somewhere.
  • demand β€” If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
  • shoot β€” to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
  • capture β€” If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
  • poach β€” to trespass, especially on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt.
  • track β€” a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • fish β€” (loosely) any of various other aquatic animals.
  • pursue β€” to strive to gain; seek to attain or accomplish (an end, object, purpose, etc.).
  • drag β€” drag and drop
  • stalk β€” an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like: We shot the mountain goat after a five-hour stalk.
  • kill β€” to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
  • snare β€” one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
  • oblige β€” to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
  • compel β€” If a situation, a rule, or a person compels you to do something, they force you to do it.
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