7 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
verb inquire about
verb conduct an inquiry or investigation of
verb have a wish or desire to know something
originFrom Old French enquerre, from en- + querre (“to search, to look for”), from Latin quaerere, of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”).
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