asking
Divide asking into syllables:
ask · ing
How to pronounce asking:
Synonyms for asking:
appeal
begging
bidding
billing
call
callback
charge
demand
entreaty
indirect request
inquiring
invitation
notice
notification
order
orison
petition
petitioning
plea
pleading
prayer
questioning
request
solicitation
speech act
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Antonyms for asking:
avoiding
banishing
blackballing
blacklisting
casting out
cold-shouldering
excluding
excommunicating
exiling
expelling
ignoring
ostracising
ostracizing
rejecting
shunning
snubbing
Other 2-syllable words like asking
Here are some other common words that have 2 syllables, like asking does.
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- stressing
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- focused
- juncture
- redux
- beater
- cooling
- cracking
- giver
- translate
- needed
- relied
- sweaty
- chaotic
- hitting
- rita
- bedrock
- prescribe
- scoring
- ne'er
- beaten
- ducking
- staring
- scentwood
- halcyon
- knowing
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