Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| answer | to say, write, or act in return. |
| answerer | one that answers. |
| ask | to request, inquire or invite. |
| asker | one who asks. |
| backspeer | (Scots) to cross-question. |
| backspeir | (Scots) to cross-question. |
| beg | to ask for. |
| beggingly | (Adv.) BEGGING, pleading. |
| beseech | to implore. |
| beseecher | one who beseeches. |
| beseechingly | (Adv.) BESEECHING, imploring. |
| beseechingness | the state of being beseeching. |
| beseeke | (Spenser) to entreat, to implore. |
| consult | to ask an opinion of. |
| consultee | one who is consulted. |
| consulter | one who consults, or asks counsel or information. |
| counterquestion | a question in response to another question. |
| demand | to ask for with authority. |
| demandable | that may be demanded or claimed. |
| demander | one who demands. |
| demandingly | (Adv.) DEMANDING. |
| enquiration | (Dial.) inquiry. |
| enquire | to ask. |
| enquirer | one who enquires. |
| enquiry | an inquiry. |
| entreat | to ask for earnestly. |
| entreatingly | (Adv.) ENTREATING, asking earnestly. |
| entreative | (Obs.) used in entreaty; pleading. |
| entreatment | the act of entreating. |
| entreaty | an earnest request. |
| exact | precise (verb) to demand |
| exacter | one who exacts. |
| exactingly | (Adv.) EXACTING. |
| exactor | one who exacts. |
| exoration | (Obs.) entreaty. |
| flagitate | to entreat or importune. |
| flagitation | the action of asking or demanding with passion. |
| impetrate | to obtain by entreaty, request or prayer. |
| impetration | seeking by entreaty. |
| impetrative | relating to impetration. |
| impetrator | one who impetrates, obtains by entreaty. |
| impetratory | relating to impetration. |
| imploration | the act of imploring. |
| implorator | (Shakesp.) one who implores. |
| imploratory | having an imploring quality. |
| implore | to beg for urgently. |
| implorer | one who implores. |
| imploringly | (Adv.) IMPLORING. |
| importune | importunate (verb) to press or urge with repeated requests |
| importunely | (Adv.) IMPORTUNE, importunate. |
| importuner | one who importunes. |
| inquere | (Spenser) to inquire. |
| inquest | a legal inquiry. |
| inquiration | (Dickens) inquiry. |
| inquire | to ask about. |
| inquirer | one who inquires. |
| inquiringly | (Adv.) INQUIRING. |
| inquiry | a question. |
| inquisition | the act of inquiring. |
| inquisitional | relating to inquisition. |
| inquisitor | one who inquires or makes inquisition. |
| interpellate | to question formally concerning an official action or policy or personal conduct. |
| interpellation | a formal questioning or challenging regarding an action or policy. |
| interpellator | one who interpellates, questions formally concerning an official action or policy or personal conduct. |
| interrogant | a questioner. |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically. |
| interrogatee | one who is interrogated. |
| interrogatingly | (Adv.) INTERROGATING. |
| interrogational | relating to interrogation. |
| interrogator | one that interrogates. |
| intreat | (Arch.) to ask earnestly. |
| intreatfull | (Spenser) full of entreaty. |
| intreatingly | (Adv.) INTREATING. |
| intreatment | the act of intreating. |
| invocate | to call on, or for, in supplication. |
| nonanswer | something that is not an answer; (verb) to answer in an unsatisfactory way. |
| nonresponse | something that is not a response. |
| obsecrate | to beseech, supplicate or beg. |
| obsecration | an entreaty. |
| obtest | to beseech, supplicate. |
| outask | to surpass in asking. |
| outbeg | to surpass in begging. |
| petition | a written supplication signed by a number of people; (verb) to make a formal request. |
| petitionary | like a petition. |
| petitioner | one who presents a petition. |
| petitory | petitioning. |
| plead | to ask for earnestly. |
| pleading | an allegation in a legal action. |
| pleadingly | (Adv.) PLEADING. |
| pray | to address prayers to. |
| prayer | a devout petition to a deity. |
| precative | supplicating; expressing entreaty. |
| precatory | expressing a wish. |
| prier | one who pries. |
| quaere | (Lat.) a query, question; (verb) to query. |
| quaeritur | (Lat.) the question is asked. |
| querier | one who queries. |
| querist | one who queries. |
| query | to question. |
| queryingly | (Adv.) QUERYING. |
| question | an inquiry; (verb) to put a question to. |
| questionary | an asker of questions. |
| questionee | one who is questioned. |
| questioner | one who asks questions. |
| questioningly | (Adv.) QUESTIONING. |
| questionist | a questioner, a doubter. |
| quiz | a set of questions; (verb) to question. |
| quizzer | one who quizzes. |
| quizzery | quizzing. |
| quizzical | mocking, questioning. |
| quizzicality | the state of being quizzical. |
| quizzically | (Adv.) QUIZZICAL, mocking, questioning. |
| redemand | to demand back; to demand again. |
| reinterrogate | to interrogate again. |
| reply | to answer. |
| request | to express a desire for. |
| requester | one who requests. |
| requestor | one who requests. |
| respond | to say or act in return. |
| responder | one who responds. |
| response | a reply or reaction. |
| responseless | without a response. |
| responser | one who responds. |
| responsor | one who responds. |
| retort | to answer back sharply. |
| retorter | one who retorts. |
| retortive | of the nature of a retort or sharp reply. |
| rogation | an asking or supplication, esp in an ecclesiastical sense. |
| rogatory | seeking information; authorized to examine witnesses or ascertain facts; as, a rogatory commission. |
| scrutator | one who investigates. |
| solicit | to ask for earnestly. |
| solicitant | one who solicits. |
| solicity | (Shakesp.) solicitation. |
| speer | (Scots) to ask. |
| speerings | (Scots) news. |
| speir | (Scots) to ask. |
| speirings | (Scots) news. |
| spier | (Scots) to ask. |
| suppliant | (Shakesp.) supplicating, asking (noun) one who supplicates |
| suppliantly | (Adv.) SUPPLIANT, supplicant, asking. |
| supplicant | one who supplicates. |
| supplicat | in English universities, a petition. |
| supplicate | to entreat for. |
| supplicatingly | (Adv.) SUPPLICATING. |
| supplication | an act of supplicating; an earnest or humble petition. |
| supplicatory | humbly pleading. |
| unasked | not asked. |
| unbegged | of a person, not entreated, not begged for. |
| unenquiring | not enquiring. |
| uninquiring | not inquiring. |
| unquestionable | not open to question. |
| unquestionably | (Adv.) UNQUESTIONABLE, not open to question. |