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Quest

The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.

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Verb group 2

Invite 84% connected

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 request the company…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Invite 84% connected

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 request the company…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Manner of action 22

Appeal 76% connected

To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injust…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Apply 76% connected

To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Arrogate 76% connected

To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ask 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Beg 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Book 76% connected

A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing c…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Challenge 76% connected

An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message con…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Claim 76% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Demand 76% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Desire 76% connected

To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Encore 76% connected

Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Excuse 76% connected

To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to ex…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Invite 76% connected

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 request the company…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Invoke 76% connected

To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Order 76% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Petition 76% connected

A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a perso…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Reserve 76% connected

To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Solicit 76% connected

To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Supplicate 76% connected

To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly; as, to supplicate blessings on Christian efforts to spread the gospel.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tap 76% connected

To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 16

Bark 76% connected

To strip the bark from; to peel.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Beg 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Chase 76% connected

To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Communicate 76% connected

To share in common; to participate in.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dog 76% connected

A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hunt 76% connected

To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for s…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hunting 76% connected

of Hunt

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Search 76% connected

To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Seek 76% connected

Sick.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Solicit 76% connected

To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tag 76% connected

Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tail 76% connected

Limitation; abridgment.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tap 76% connected

To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Track 76% connected

A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Trail 76% connected

To hunt by the track; to track.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 4

Asking 74% connected

of Ask

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Asking 74% connected

of Ask

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Seeker 74% connected

One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Seeker 74% connected

One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 6

Bay 92% connected

Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bespeak 92% connected

To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pursuance 92% connected

The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pursuit 92% connected

The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Request 92% connected

The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Seeking 92% connected

of Seek

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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