Asking and Plea

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Asking noun - The verbal act of requesting.

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Plea and asking are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Plea" instead a noun "Asking".

Nearby Words: ask, asked

Plea noun - An earnest request.

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Asking and plea are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Asking" instead a noun "Plea".

Nearby Word: pleading

The person making the plea is evidently desperate or terrified, probably being watched by a hostile third party, and may be taking a risk just by asking for help.

Source: Quiet Cry for Help
In the adaptation, she is portrayed (initially, anyway) as a sympathetic victim who is forced to silently endure her husband's cruelty, and her asking for Poirot's help looks more like a desperate plea than a callous asking.

Source: Literature / Lord Edgware Dies
Series creators Ron Moore and David Eick went so far as to post a plea on the show's official message board asking American fans not to download the episodes before they aired in the US (what an oddly specific request).

Source: Short Run in Peru

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