Intelligent
Intelligent adjective - Having or showing quickness of mind.
Questioning and intelligent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Questioning" instead an adjective "Intelligent".
Questioning
Questioning adjective - Inclined to doubt or question claims.
Intelligent and questioning are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Intelligent" instead an adjective "Questioning".
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Informed Ability: Rise of Endymion is full of references to the independent nature, critical thinking tendencies and, at one point, a vast mob of "intelligent, questioning, alert" Aenea's followers.
Source: Literature / Hyperion Cantos - Within about a month, Carla has risked her job and her life to help Lucas, begun to trust him implicitly without her previous intelligent questioning, declared her love for him, and gotten herself knocked up with his zombie child, all entirely offscreen.
Source: Strangled by the Red String
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