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Reflect :: Reflect (v. i.) To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to contemplate. Specifically: To attend earnestly to what passes within the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness; to use attention or earnest thought; to meditate; especially, to think in relation to moral truth or rules..

Expostulate :: Expostulate (v. i.) To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with..

Press :: Press (v.) To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press divine truth on an audience..

Mockery :: Mockery (n.) The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance..

Preacher :: Preacher (n.) One who inculcates anything with earnestness.

Overearnest :: Overearnest (a.) Too earnest.

Slack :: Slack (superl.) Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service..

Indifferentism :: Indifferentism (n.) State of indifference; want of interest or earnestness; especially, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism..

Entreat :: Entreat (v. t.) To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune..

Supplication :: Supplication (n.) The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship..

Imprest :: Imprest (v. t.) A kind of earnest money; loan; -- specifically, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment..

Forerun :: Forerun (v. t.) To come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce.

Zealot :: Zealot (n.) One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan..

Solemn :: Solemn (a.) Real; earnest; downright.

Roundly :: Roundly (adv.) Completely; vigorously; in earnest.

Serious :: Serious (a.) Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.

Instant :: Instant (a.) Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.

Earnestly :: Earnestly (adv.) In an earnest manner.

Forward :: Forward (a.) Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years..

Earnestful :: Earnestful (a.) Serious.

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