Synonyms of the word

appeal

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accuse (someone of something).
• v. (transitive, law, chiefly US, informal elsewhere) To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior…
• v. (intransitive) To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to…
• v. (intransitive) To call on (someone) for aid.
• v. (intransitive) To be attractive.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by…
• v. To summon; to challenge.
• v. To invoke.
• n. (law).
• n. A summons to answer to a charge.
• n. A call to a person or an authority for help, proof or a decision; entreaty.
• n. Resort to physical means; recourse.
• n. The power to attract or interest.

advert

• n. (Britain, informal) An advertisement, an ad.
• v. To turn attention.
• v. To call attention, refer; construed with to.

appealingness

• n. The state or quality of being appealing.

asking

• v. present participle of ask.
• n. The act or process of posing a question or making a request.
• n. (Rare in the singular) A request, or petition.

attract

• v. To pull toward without touching.
• v. To arouse interest.
• v. To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite…

attractiveness

• n. (uncountable) The state of being attractive or engaging.
• n. (countable) The result of being attractive.

bespeak

• v. (transitive) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
• v. (transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
• v. (transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.
• v. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.
• v. (transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest.
• v. (intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
• n. A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.

challenge

• n. A confrontation; a dare.
• n. A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that…
• n. (law) A procedure or action.
• n. (hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
• v. To invite someone to take part in a competition.
• v. To dare someone.
• v. To dispute something.
• v. (law) To make a formal objection to a juror.
• v. (obsolete) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
• v. (obsolete) To censure; to blame.
• v. (military) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
• v. (US) To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as…
• v. (Canada, US) To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.

charm

• n. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
• n. The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
• n. (physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the quantity of charm quarks & antiquarks.
• n. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
• v. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural…
• v. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
• v. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
• n. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
• n. A flock, group (especially of finches).

cite

• v. To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
• v. To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
• v. To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
• n. (informal) a citation.

collection

• n. A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
• n. Multiple related objects associated as a group.
• n. The activity of collecting.
• n. (topology, analysis) A set of sets.
• n. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
• n. (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
• n. (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
• n. (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University slang) A set of college exams generally taken at the start…

entreaty

• n. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation.
• n. (archaic) A treatment; reception; entertainment.

ingathering

• v. present participle of ingather.
• n. The gathering in of a literal or metaphorical harvest.

invoke

• v. (transitive) To call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
• v. (transitive) To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
• v. (transitive) To conjure up with incantations.
• v. (transitive) To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
• v. (transitive) To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
• v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.

mention

• n. A speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase…
• v. To make a short reference to something.
• v. (philosophy, linguistics) To utter an word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as…

name

• n. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
• n. Reputation.
• n. An abusive or insulting epithet.
• n. A person (or legal person).
• n. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
• n. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
• n. (Britain, finance) An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
• v. (transitive) To give a name to.
• v. (transitive) To mention, specify.
• v. (transitive) To identify as relevant or important.
• v. (transitive) To publicly implicate.
• v. (transitive) To designate for a role.
• n. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

petition

• n. A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
• n. A compilation of signatures built in order to exert moral authority in support of a specific cause.
• n. (law) A formal written request for judicial action.
• n. A prayer; a supplication; an entreaty.
• v. To make a request, commonly in written form.

postulation

• n. The act of postulating or something postulated.
• n. (logic) Something self-evident that can be assumed as the basis of an argument.

prayer

• n. A practice of communicating with one's God.
• n. The act of praying.
• n. The specific words or methods used for praying.
• n. A meeting held for the express purpose of praying.
• n. A request; a petition.
• n. (mostly in negative constructions) The remotest hope or chance.
• n. One who prays.

proceeding

• v. present participle of proceed.
• n. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction.
• n. (especially in plural) An event or happening; something that happens.
• n. The collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference.
• n. Progress or movement from one thing to another.
• n. A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction.
• n. (law) Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.

proceedings

• n. plural of proceeding.
• n. (law, plural only) The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. (Can we date this quote…
• n. The published record of the actions of a society, or of things done at its meetings.

quest

• n. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
• n. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
• n. (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
• n. (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
• n. (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
• v. To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
• v. To search for; to examine.
• v. (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.

refer

• v. (transitive) To direct the attention of.
• v. (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
• v. (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause,…
• v. (intransitive, construed with to) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
• v. (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence.
• v. (computing) To address a specific location in computer memory.

request

• n. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
• n. A formal message requesting something.
• n. Condition of being sought after.
• n. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
• v. to express the need or desire for.
• v. to ask somebody to do something.

solicitation

• n. the action or instance of soliciting; petition; proposal.
• n. (US, law) an inchoate offense that consists of a person offering money or inducing another to commit a…