manner in order to ascertain one’s secrets or the amount of his knowledge or information.  That to request is to ask formally and politely.  That to beg is to ask for deferentially or humbly, especially on the ground of pity.  That to solicit is to ask with urgency.  That to entreat is to ask with strong desire and moving appeal.  That to beseech is to ask earnestly as a boon or favor.  That to crave is to ask humbly and abjectly, as though unworthy of receiving.  That to implore is to ask with fervor and intense earnestness.  That to supplicate is to ask with urgent or even desperate appeal. (Both implore and supplicate imply humility, as of a prayer to a superior being.) That to importune is to ask for persistently, even wearyingly.  That to petition is to ask a superior, usually in writing, for some favor, grant, or right.

Assignment for further discrimination:  plead, pray.

Sentences:  The leader of the minority ____ the upholders of the
measure sharply as to a secret understanding.  I ____ you to keep your
promise.  I shall ____ that solution for the present.  The colonists ____
Great Britain for a redress of grievances.  She ____ the governor to grant
her husband a pardon.  A child is naturally inquisitive and ____ many
questions.  I ____ you to show mercy.  On bended knees he ____ God’s
forgiveness.  “I’m stopp’d by all the fools I meet And ____ in every
street.”  The policeman ____ the suspect closely.  The prosecuting attorney
____ the witness.  We are ____ funds to aid the famine-stricken people of
India.  He ____ me about your health.  You should ____ at the office about
the lost package.  She ____ your presence at the party.  Every one resents
being ____.  I ____ you to care for the child after I am gone.  A fool
can ____ questions a wise man can’t answer.  She annoyed them by constantly
____ them for favors.  The reporter ____ into the causes of the riot. “____
and it shall be given you.”  I ____ your pardon, though I well know I do
not deserve it.  The man ____ me to give him some money for food.

Burn, scorch, singe, sear, parch, char, incinerate, cremate, cauterize.

If you consume or injure something by bringing it in contact with fire or heat, you burn it.  If you do not consume it but burn it superficially so as to change the texture or color of its surface, you scorch it.  If you burn off ends or projections of it, you singe it.  If you burn its surface to dryness or hardness, you sear it.  If you dry or shrivel it with heat, you parch it.  If through heat you reduce it to a state of charcoal, or cinders, you char it.  If you burn it to ashes, you incinerate it. (This word is learned and but little used in ordinary discourse.) If you burn a dead body to ashes, you cremate it.  If you burn or sear anything with a hot iron or a corrosive substance, you cauterize it.