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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] /ΛˆΙ›l Ι™ΛŒhyu/ (Show IPA), 1845–1937, 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 person’s 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.
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