Required
Required adjective - Forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law.
Sought and required are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sought" instead an adjective "Required".
Nearby Words: requirement, requiring
Sought
Sought adjective - That is looked for.
Both words in one sentence
- He actively sought information and pricing on the illegal weapons and tools required to stage a coup d'etat in Equatorial Guinea while researching for his novel The Dogs of War.
Source: Shown Their Work / Literature -
She eventually came back to her family's lives due to her long sought discovery of Atlantis which required their aid in excavation.
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