All 7 Uses

inquiry
in
The Turn of the Screw
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It took little time to see that I could sound without forms of inquiry and without exciting remark any domestic complications.†
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inquiry = questioning or investigating
It was a dreadfully austere inquiry, but levity was not our note, and, at any rate, before the gray dawn admonished us to separate I had got my answer.†
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At this my companion did turn, but the inquiry she launched was a silent one, the effect of which was to make me more explicit.†
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—there was nothing like that inquiry, we found by experience, for carrying off an awkwardness.†
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I perceived quickly enough that I could make, to this inquiry, no answer that would not involve something of a sacrifice of my employer.†
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This we promptly arranged between us; but when, ten minutes later and in pursuance of our arrangement, we met in the hall, it was only to report on either side that after guarded inquiries we had altogether failed to trace her.†
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inquiries = questions or investigations
When later, by the schoolroom fire, I was served with tea by the usual maid, I indulged, on the article of my other pupil, in no inquiry whatever.†
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inquiry = questioning or investigating

Definitions:

(1) (inquiry)
a question or investigation -- especially one meant to gather information or find out the truth
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)