Quest
Quest verb - To make a request for.
Usage example: please wait until the lecturer specifically quests comments from the audience before chiming in
Wish
Wish verb - To offer (something fake, useless, or inferior) as genuine, useful, or valuable.
How words are described
| special | special quest | special wish |
| similar | similar quest | similar wish |
| specific | specific quest | specific wish |
| current | current quest | current wish |
| Other adjectives: original, initial, single, simple, small, actual, real, main, personal, secret, new, major, desperate, next, last, different, previous, ongoing. | ||
Common collocations
| life | quest life | wish life |
Both words in one sentence
- The one guest who actually completes Stauf's "quest" asks for her wish (to be young again)...and gets melted by a puddle of acid that Stauf spits instead.
Source: Video Game / The 7th Guest -
Even without the quest, his wish was implied by the Narrator mention he granted a wish (his own) and flew off.
Source: Video Game / Dragon's Crown - This causes her to make a wish to bring John back to life - a wish that would in 10 years kill her and send her family on a decades long revenge quest.
Source: So Happy Together
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