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Importune

To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.

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Beg 76% connected

A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

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Implore 76% connected

To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly b…

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Pray 76% connected

See Pry.

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Besiege 76% connected

To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.

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Insist 92% connected

To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Alligator noun · 78% connection

a kind of job press, called also alligator press.

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Annoy noun · 78% connection

To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remark…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: request, solicit, urgency, press, frequent.
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Application noun · 78% connection

A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.

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Apply verb · 78% connection

To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for i…

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Ask verb · 78% connection

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: request, solicit, urgency, press, frequent.
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Badger verb · 78% connection

To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: request, solicit, urgency, press, frequent.
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Entreat verb · 78% connection

To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: request, solicit, urgency, press, frequent.
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Frequent adjective · 78% connection

coming at short intervals or habitually; "a frequent guest"; "frequent complaints"

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: request, solicit, urgency, press, frequent.
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Fret verb · 78% connection

To tease; to irritate; to vex.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: request, solicit, urgency, press, frequent.
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Hard adverb · 78% connection

With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.

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Hector verb · 78% connection

To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying.

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Huddle verb · 78% connection

To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorde…

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Importunee adjective · 78% connection

Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation.

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Importunity noun · 78% connection

The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesom…

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Inflexibility noun · 78% connection

The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; fir…

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Instance noun · 78% connection

The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.

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Invite verb · 78% connection

To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to reque…

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Obstinacy noun · 78% connection

A fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that can not be shaken at all, or only with great difficulty; firm and usually unreasonabl…

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