Examine
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To observe or inspect carefully or critically. To study or analyse. To check the health or condition of something or someone. To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination. To interrogate.
Example sentence: If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Probe
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To explore, investigate, or question
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a device, or part of a device, used to explore, investigate or measurean investigation or inquirya move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy
Example sentence: Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the 'adjacent possible.' We didn't stay in the caves. We didn't stay on the planet, and soon we won't stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.