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- request β the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
- involve β to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- instruct β to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- obligate β to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- cause β a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- order β an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- rummage β to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
- comb β A comb is a flat piece of plastic or metal with narrow pointed teeth along one side, which you use to tidy your hair.
- ransack β to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- inspect β to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- prospect β Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- root β Elihu [el-uh-hyoo] /ΛΙl ΙΛhyu/ (Show IPA), 1845β1937, U.S. lawyer and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1912.
- study β a room, in a house or other building, set apart for private study, reading, writing, or the like.
- quest β a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- frisk β to dance, leap, skip, or gambol; frolic: The dogs and children frisked about on the lawn.
- grope β to feel about with the hands; feel one's way: I had to grope around in the darkness before I found the light switch.
- pry β to inquire impertinently or unnecessarily into something: to pry into the personal affairs of others.
- market β an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- sleuth β a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- notice β an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
- glimpse β a very brief, passing look, sight, or view.
- meddle β to involve oneself in a matter without right or invitation; interfere officiously and unwantedly: Stop meddling in my personal life!
- tail β the limitation of an estate to a person and the personβs heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
- peep β to utter the short, shrill little cry of a young bird, a mouse, etc.; cheep; squeak.
- view β an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
- stag β an adult male deer.
- tarry β to remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn: He tarried in Baltimore on his way to Washington.
- abide β to tolerate; put up with
- stall β a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
- bide β to continue in a certain place or state; stay
- dally β If you dally, you act or move very slowly, wasting time.
- conjecture β A conjecture is a conclusion that is based on information that is not certain or complete.
- visualize β to recall or form mental images or pictures.
- figure β a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- prophesy β to foretell or predict.
- foretell β to tell of beforehand; predict; prophesy.
- suppose β to assume (something), as for the sake of argument or as part of a proposition or theory: Suppose the distance to be one mile.
- prognosticate β to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- divine β of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.
- wait β to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
- sweat β to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- hope β Anthony, pen name of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins.
- surmise β to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
- look β to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- reckon β to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- apprehend β If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
- gather β to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- feel β to perceive or examine by touch.
- sense β any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body: My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.
- suspect β to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.