mindmap root((恳求)) beg suggests earnestness or insistence especially in asking for a favor: children ~ging to stay up later. entreat implies an effort to persuade or to overcome resistance in another: ~ed him to change his mind. beseech implies eagerness, anxiety or solicitude: I ~ you to have mercy. implore adds a suggestion of greater urgency or anguished appeal: ~d her not to leave him. supplicate suggests a posture of humility: with bowed heads they ~d their lord. adjure implies advising as well as pleading and suggests the involving of something sacred: in God’s name I ~ you to cease. importune suggests an annoying persistence in trying to break down resistance to a request: ~d his mother nearly every day to buy him a new bike.