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whatchoo
fresh hell
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interrogatively
interrogative
inquire of
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like
in aid of
interrogate
the devil
ask
answer back
how's every little thing
inquire
FAQ
raise one's hand
queryingly
good question
self reporting
ask the question
question the question
so
agewise
address
questionable
quizzingly
askable
quiz
what of
raise
midquestion
what do you mean
questioningly
put to
wonderingly
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deliberative
big
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inquisition
indirect question
aetat
interpellate
catechetically
debrief
scaled question
Q-word
cobwebby
should
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asking
hmm
how say you
IYAM
do you know what I'm saying
enquirer
A.
querier
querying
how long is a piece of string
deliberation
asker
carritches
inquirer
testlet
questioner
lot
interrogation
requirement
you
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fraining
YEKIOYD
where do you live
today years old
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what in tarnation
DYK
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quarterlife
how old are you
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enquire after
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aetat
cobwebby
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today years old
quarterlife
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the devil
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wonderingly
catechetically
direct question
fresh hell
FAQ
self reporting
midquestion
age identity
deliberative
inquisition
indirect question
scaled question
Q-word
tween
enquirer
A.
querier
deliberation
asker
carritches
inquirer
testlet
questioner
lot
interrogation
requirement
fraining
quodlibet
who
DYK
quizlet
query
catechize
inquire of
interrogate
ask
answer back
inquire
raise one's hand
ask the question
question the question
address
quiz
raise
put to
load
interpellate
debrief
should
you
get
inquire after
enquire after
verb
adv
- Used at the end of a question for emphasis, or to direct the conversation to something of more broad importance (compare with more to the point).
- Regardless; anyhow.
- Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement. See anyhow and at least.
- Used to indicate a change of subject.
prep
- Used to ask for a description or opinion of someone or something
- Typical of
- Approximating
- In the manner of, similarly to
- Such as
- Similar to, reminiscent of
- As if there would be
adv
verb
- To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.
- To be likely.
- To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
- To want, desire. See also would like.
- To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
- To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
- To accept as an input.
conj
noun
- An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.
- The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.
- Something that a person likes (prefers).
- Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort.
particle
- A delayed filler.
- Likely.
- Indicating approximation or uncertainty.
- Used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase or an expression of something that happened.
adj
verb
- To put forward (a question) to be answered.
- To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
- To request or petition; usually with for.
- To invite.
- To take (a person's situation) as an example.
- To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
- To request permission to do something.
- To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
- To request (information, or an answer to a question).
noun
verb
intj
- Used as a question to ask for further explanation of something said, often rhetorically or in a dismissive or impolite manner.
- Used as a meaningless filler word to begin a response to a question.
- Used after a pause for thought to introduce a new topic, question or story, or a new thought or question in continuation of an existing topic.
noun
- A type of dairy product, made especially in Japan between the seventh and 10th centuries, by reducing milk by boiling it.
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale.
conj
- Used to introduce a rhetorical question.
- Used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question.
- With the result that; for that reason; therefore.
adj
- In that state or manner; with that attribute. A proadjective that replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase.
- True, accurate.
adv
adv
verb
- direct a question at someone
- address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question
- speak to
- give a speech to
- put an address on (an envelope)
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- access or locate by address
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- speak to someone
- adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting
noun
- (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored
- the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with
- the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
- the manner of speaking to another individual
- a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described
- written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location
- the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball
- social skill
verb
- To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
- To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- To create, increase or develop.
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
- To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- To open, initiate.
- To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
- To collect or amass.
- To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- To promote.
- To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
- To bring up; to grow.
- To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- To exponentiate, to involute.
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
noun
adj
- Old, mature. Used to imply that somebody is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
- Important or significant.
- Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.
- Popular.
- Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
- Enthusiastic (about).
- Fat.
- Adult; (of a child) older.
- Populous.
- Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
- Of great size, large.
- Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
- Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.
noun
- The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role.
- An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
- A initiated member of a sorority who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
- One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.
- The big leagues, big time.
adv
verb
- To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- To put runners on first, second and third bases
- To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- To provide in abundance.
- To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- To receive a load.
- To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- to top up or purchase phone credits
- To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- To be put into use in an apparatus.
- To put a load on something.
- To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
- To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
noun
- The charge of powder for a firearm.
- A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- A unit of measure for various quantities.
- The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- The viral load
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- Nonsense; rubbish.
- prepaid phone credit
- The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- A large number or amount.
- The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
verb
- To question someone after a military mission in order to obtain information (especially intelligence).
- To question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project, in order to learn from mistakes, etc.
- To inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner.
noun
verb
- In questions, asks what is correct, proper, desirable, etc.
- Will be likely to (become or do something); indicates a degree of possibility or probability that the stated thing will happen or be true in the future.
- Indicates that something is expected to have happened or to be the case now.
- Used to express a conditional outcome.
- With verbs such as 'see' or 'hear', usually in the second person, used to point out something remarkable in either a good or bad way.
- To make a statement of what ought to be true, as opposed to reality.
- Used to impart a tentative, conjectural or polite nuance.
- Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
- Simple past tense of shall.
- Used to issue an instruction (traditionally seen as carrying less force of authority than alternatives such as 'shall' or 'must').
- Used to give advice or opinion that an action is, or would have been, beneficial or desirable.
- Used to form a variant of the present subjunctive, expressing a state or action that is hypothetical, potential, mandated, etc.
noun
noun
- a number or age in the twenties (plural only), or a person of that age
- An action of tweening (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening.
- A child, especially a girl, in the age range between middle childhood and adolescence, normally between eight and thirteen years of age.
verb
adj
phrase
noun
- age; aged
- apprentice
- absorbance; absorbancy
- accusative case
- amphibian
- attack
- August
- author
- automobile
- application
- Amos, the book of
- adjutant
- accumulator
- acre; acres
- Angstrom
- ana; anna
- April
- anode
- answer
- artificer
- air branch
- atomic weight
- associate; association
- academy; academician
- airman
- assault, as on a badge
- air
- administration
- admiral
- alfa
- amateur
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- Artillery
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- address
- adult
- acid
- aircraft; airplane
- article
- Atlantic
- arctic
- army
- accommodation
- America; Americanization
- ambassador
- alto
adj
- amphibious
- avancé (fast)
- Asian
- asked
- Australian
- arterial
- alto
- auxiliary
- adjusted
- asymmetric
- accepted
- astragal
- anterior
- American
- arctic
- approved
- atomic
- Absolute
- absent
verb
prep
adv
noun
- Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
- That which happens without human design or forethought.
- One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
- A large quantity or number; a great deal.
- A number of people taken collectively.
- A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
- A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
- A prize in a lottery.
- Allotment; lottery.
- An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
- All members of a set; everything.
- The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
noun
- Something asked.
- A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory. Its adpositions are generally of in relation to who or what has given it, on in relation to whom or what it is given to, and for in relation to what is required.
- A statement (in domain specific terms) which specifies a verifiable constraint on an implementation that it shall undeniably meet or (a) be deemed unacceptable, or (b) result in implementation failure, or (c) result in system failure.
verb
det
- Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.
- The individual or group spoken or written to.
pron
- Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
- (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
- The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
- The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
- The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
- The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
noun
noun
noun
- A mode of philosophical debate popular in the Middle Ages, in which any question could be posed extemporaneously.
- A form of trompe l'oeil which realistically renders domestic items (paper-knives, playing-cards, ribbons, etc).
- A form of music with melodies in counterpoint.
- A card game that combines several different contracts.
verb
- To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
- To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- To cause to become; to bring about.
- To kill.
- To receive.
- To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- To getter.
- To obtain; to acquire.
- To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- To begin (doing something or to do something).
- To have. See usage notes.
- To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- To cause to do.
- To fetch, bring, take.
- To become, or cause oneself to become.
- To understand. (compare get it)
- To catch out, trick successfully.
- To find as an answer.
- To hear completely; catch.
- Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- To go, to leave; to scram.
- To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- To measure.
- To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- To perplex, stump.
- To cause to come or go or move.
noun
noun
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