Brucker Bears 4-5: interrogate

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

interrogate

(v.) - To interrogate someone is to ask a lot of questions for a long time in order to get information, sometimes using threats.

Synonyms: examine, inquire, ask, grill, query, question, quiz
Antonyms: answer, reply
Etymology: Late 15th Century Latin, from from inter- meaning "between" + rogare meaning "ask, to question"
Morphology: interrogated, interrogating, interrogation, interrogative
Example: A detective has to interrogate his witnesses, as well as his suspects to figure out whether his conjecture is accurate or not.

In the game 20 Questions, the guesser must interrogate the thinker in order to figure out the mystery object. Let's see if the computer can correctly identify our object through its interrogation!

3 comments:

Talented StudentSeptember 6, 2012 at 10:45 AM
jordyn says My mom interrogates me if I kick my sister.
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Talented StudentSeptember 6, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Dylan.N says
I interrogate when I am confused or puzzled.
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Talented StudentSeptember 19, 2012 at 9:36 PM
Greta says, I was whatching the big brother finale and I heard interrogation in a sentence.
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