Synonyms of the word

ask

• v. To request (information, or an answer to a question).
• v. To put forward (a question) to be answered.
• v. To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
• v. To request or petition; usually with for.
• v. To request permission to do something.
• v. To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
• v. To invite.
• v. To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
• v. (figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.
• n. An act or instance of asking.
• n. Something asked or asked for; a request.
• n. An asking price.
• n. (Britain dialectal and Scotland) An eft; newt.
• n. (Britain dialectal) A lizard.

address

• n. Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
• n. Act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech.
• n. Manner of speaking to another; delivery.
• n. Attention in the way one addresses a lady.
• n. Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
• n. (obsolete) Act of preparing oneself.
• n. A description of the location of a property.
• n. (by extension) The property itself.
• n. (computing) A location in computer memory.
• n. (Internet) An Internet address; URL.
• n. An email address.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or make ready.
• v. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
• v. (reflexive) To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To clothe or array; to dress.
• v. (transitive) To direct, as words, to (anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. to (any…
• v. (transitive) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by…
• v. (transitive) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
• v. (transitive) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
• v. (transitive) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
• v. (transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech…
• v. (transitive, formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To refer a location in computer memory.
• v. (golf, transitive) To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).

articulate

• adj. clear, effective.
• adj. especially, speaking in a clear or effective manner.
• adj. able to bend or hinge at certain points or intervals.
• adj. Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
• adj. (obsolete, of sound) Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.
• n. (zoology) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
• v. To make clear or effective.
• v. To speak clearly; to enunciate.
• v. To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
• v. To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
• v. (music) to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
• v. (anatomy) to form a joint or connect by joints.
• v. (obsolete) To treat or make terms.

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.

communicate

• v. To impart.
• v. To share.

demand

• n. The desire to purchase goods and services.
• n. (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
• n. A need.
• n. A claim for something.
• n. A requirement.
• n. An urgent request.
• n. An order.
• n. (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a…
• v. To request forcefully.
• v. To claim a right to something.
• v. To ask forcefully for information.
• v. To require of someone.
• v. (law) To issue a summons to court.

enquire

• v. (intransitive) To make an enquiry.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To ask about (something).

expect

• v. To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or…
• v. To consider obligatory or required.
• v. To consider reasonably due.
• v. (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.

formulate

• v. (transitive) To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement…

inquire

• v. (US) To ask (about something).
• v. To make an inquiry or an investigation.

intercommunicate

• v. To communicate, one with another.
• v. To be interconnected.

involve

• v. (archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
• v. (archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
• v. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
• v. (archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily;…
• v. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
• v. To envelop, enfold, entangle.
• v. To engage (someone) to participate in a task.
• v. (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of…

necessitate

• v. (transitive) To make necessary; to require (something) to be brought about.

need

• n. (countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.
• n. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
• v. (transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
• v. (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
• v. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
• v. (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone).

phrase

• n. A short written or spoken expression.
• n. (grammar) A word or group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually…
• n. (music) A small section of music in a larger piece.
• n. (archaic) A mode or form of speech; diction; expression.
• v. (intransitive, music) To perform a passage with the correct phrasing.
• v. (transitive, music) To divide into melodic phrases.
• v. (transitive) To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of words.

postulate

• n. Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a…
• n. A fundamental element; a basic principle.
• n. (logic) An axiom.
• n. A requirement; a prerequisite.
• adj. Postulated.
• v. To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Christianity, historical) To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical…
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To request, demand or claim for oneself.

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.

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.

require

• v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request.
• v. To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.
• v. Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
• v. To demand of (someone) to do something.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

word

• n. The smallest unit of language which has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest…
• n. Something which is like such a unit of language.
• n. The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action.
• n. (now rare outside certain phrases) Something which has been said; a comment, utterance; speech.
• n. (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting…
• n. (obsolete) A proverb or motto.
• n. News; tidings (used without an article).
• n. An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
• n. A promise; an oath or guarantee.
• n. A brief discussion or conversation.
• n. (in the plural) See words.
• n. (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
• n. (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ.
• v. (transitive) To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter with words, to cajole.
• v. (transitive) To ply or overpower with words.
• v. (transitive, rare) To conjure with a word.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse.
• interj. (slang, African American Vernacular) Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement…
• interj. (slang, emphatic, stereotypically, African American Vernacular) An abbreviated form of word up; a statement…
• v. Alternative form of worth (to become).