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inquisition collapse: a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals); a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy

inquisitive collapse: showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow"; inquiring or appearing to inquire; "an inquiring look"; "the police are proverbially inquisitive"

itchy collapse: causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch; "he had an itchy toe from the mosquito bite"

interrogation collapse: formal systematic questioning; a transmission that will trigger an answering transmission from a transponder

questioning collapse: a request for information; perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know); "he had a quizzical expression"

voyeurism collapse: a perversion in which a person receives sexual gratification from seeing the genitalia of others or witnessing others' sexual behavior

interested collapse: having or showing interest; especially curiosity or fascination or concern; "an interested audience"; "interested in sports"; "was interested to hear about her family"; "interested in knowing who was on the telephone"; "interested spectators"

quiz collapse: an examination consisting of a few short questions; examine someone's knowledge of something; "The teacher tests us every week"; "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs"

ghoulish collapse: suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"

morbid collapse: suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"

prurience collapse: feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness

curious collapse: eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"; having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; "a trap door that made me curious"

analysis collapse: an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole; the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations; a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation; a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed; the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'

examination collapse: the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes); the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned; a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge; "when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions"

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