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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
questioning
a request for information (Freq. 6)
• Syn:
inquiring
• Derivationally related forms:
inquire (for: inquiring), question
• Hypernyms:
request, asking
• Hyponyms:
challenge, question, inquiry, enquiry, query,
interrogation, examination, interrogatory
1. perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) (Freq. 1)
- he had a quizzical expression
• Syn:
quizzical
• Similar to:
perplexed
2. showing curiosity
- if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive
- raised a speculative eyebrow
• Syn:
inquisitive, speculative, wondering
• Similar to:
curious
• Derivationally related forms:
speculate (for: speculative), inquisitiveness (for: inquisitive), inquire (for: inquisitive)
3. marked by or given to doubt
- a skeptical attitude
- a skeptical listener
• Syn:
doubting, skeptical, sceptical
• Similar to:
distrustful
• Derivationally related forms:
scepticism (for: sceptical), sceptic (for: sceptical), skeptic (for: skeptical), skepticism (for: skeptical)
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