Query– (Noun)

Definition: A question or a request for information about something

Source: Query http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/query

Found in: “There Was Once” by Margaret Atwood. (The fourth quote on the first page)

Quote: “That’s better. But I have to seriously query this word poor.”

When the second speaker said that she has to query this word “poor”, she meant that she has to question the way the storyteller used the word poor because she felt that the girl wasn’t homeless or starving.

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