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Verb: interpellate  ,in-tu(r)'pe,leyt
  1. Question formally about policy or government business
    "The realistic mode commonly employed in colonialist fiction is to interpellate a reader into assuming the perspective"

Derived forms: interpellated, interpellating, interpellates

Type of: query, question

Encyclopedia: Interpellate