Checking and Questioning

noun

• A request for information.
  • synonyms: inquiring

verb

• Challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of.
  • usage: "We must question your judgment in this matter"
  • synonyms: question, oppugn, call into question
• Pose a series of questions to.
  • usage: "The suspect was questioned by the police"; "We questioned the survivor about the details of the explosion"
  • synonyms: interrogate, question
• Pose a question.
  • synonyms: question, query
• Conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting.
  • synonyms: interview, question
• Place in doubt or express doubtful speculation.
  • usage: "I wonder whether this was the right thing to do"; "she wondered whether it would snow tonight"
  • synonyms: wonder, question

adjective

• Perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know. )
  • usage: "he had a quizzical expression"
  • synonyms: quizzical
• Marked by or given to doubt.
  • usage: "a skeptical attitude"; "a skeptical listener"
  • synonyms: doubting, skeptical, sceptical
• Showing curiosity.
  • usage: "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow"
  • synonyms: inquisitive, speculative, wondering