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n. a request for information

v. tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"

accept

v. consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"

accept

v. be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal; "The cow accepted the bull"

accept

v. react favorably to; consider right and proper; "People did not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of universal health care"

accept

v. receive (a report) officially, as from a committee

take, accept

v. make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take an opportunity"

take, accept

v. be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the dye"

consent, accept, go for, consent to

v. give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"

take, have, accept

v. receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present"

take, take on, accept, admit

v. admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"

bear, assume, accept, take over

v. take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility"

questioning, quizzical

adj. perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know); "he had a quizzical expression"

questioning, inquisitive, speculative, wondering

adj. showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow"

questioning, skeptical, sceptical, doubting

adj. marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a skeptical listener"

let, permit, countenance, allow

v. consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam"

swallow, believe gullibly, accept without challenging, accept without questioning

v. believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?"

trust, rely on, rely upon, bank on, confide in, swear by, have confidence in, have faith in

v. have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"

gather, understand, infer

v. believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?"

treasure, prize, value, appreciate, hold dear

v. hold dear; "I prize these old photographs"

esteem, repute, think of, look on as, look upon, regard as, take to be

v. look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent"

adhere to, accede to, comply with

v. be compatible or in accordance with

bow, submit, accede, give in, defer

v. submit or yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure"

assent, accede, acquiesce, comply

v. to agree or express agreement; "The Maestro assented to the request for an encore"

grant, yield, concede

v. be willing to concede; "I grant you this much"

pass, clear, authorize, authorise, permit officially

v. grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"

enable, render capable, render able

v. render capable or able for some task; "This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street"; "The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain"

let, permit, countenance, allow

v. consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam"

sanction, okay, approve, ok

v. give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies"

have, receive

v. get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"

lodge, accommodate

v. provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester"

shoulder, lift onto one's shoulders

v. lift onto one's shoulders

inquisitive

adj. inquiring or appearing to inquire; "an inquiring look"; "the police are proverbially inquisitive"

meddling, busy, interfering, meddlesome, officious, busybodied

adj. intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business"

incredulous

adj. not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving

disbelieving, skeptical, sceptical, unbelieving

adj. denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion; "a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles"

absorb, take over

v. take up, as of debts or payments; "absorb the costs for something"

bear, assume, accept, take over

v. take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility"

take in

v. provide with shelter

take, have, accept

v. receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present"

amazed, dumbfounded, dumfounded

adj. as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise; "a circle of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of having seen the accident"; "the flabbergasted aldermen were speechless"; "was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion"

nonplused, nonplussed, puzzled, at a loss

adj. filled with bewilderment; "at a loss to understand those remarks"; "puzzled that she left without saying goodbye"

at sea, confused, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, mazed, mixed-up

adj. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school"

metagrobolized, metagrabolized, mystified

adj. totally perplexed and mixed up; "all this duncical nonsense has my brains metagrobolized"- Wall Street Journal

stuck

adj. baffled; "this problem has me completely stuck"

prying, inquisitorial, nosy, nosey, snoopy

adj. offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day"

overcurious

adj. showing excessive curiosity

misanthropic, misanthropical, cynical

adj. believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others

jealous, green-eyed, overjealous

adj. suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival; "a jealous lover"

suspicious, leery, mistrustful, untrusting

adj. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

misogynic

adj. (used of men) having deep-seated distrust of women

oversuspicious

adj. unduly suspicious

reject

v. refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"

renounce, repudiate

v. cast off or disown; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"

discredit, disbelieve

v. reject as false; refuse to accept

discount, disregard, ignore, brush off, dismiss, brush aside, push aside

v. bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"

decline, refuse

v. show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike"

reject, scorn, disdain, turn down, spurn, pooh-pooh, freeze off

v. reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"

reject, decline, refuse, turn down, pass up

v. refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality"

reject, decline, refuse, turn down, pass up

v. refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality"

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