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Vocabulary: curiosity and conjectures

CURIOSITY is an ugly flaw! (because there are "beautiful" flaws!) 

In English, the idiom is "curiosity kills the cat"... 

Wow!    I've tried to find information about the origin of this sentence and the "explanations" I've found, [other than "cats are nosey and sometimes, they pay for it...] are not very satisfactory... 

Well... It doesn't matter!  I'll take the opposite view to what you were told when you were little: "Let's be nosey... Let's not be afraid of intellectual curiosity! Let's try to find!

Let's not be satisfied with common wisdom... Let's deal with the problems in depth! Trying to discover the how and the why finally gives us knowledge, satisfaction and... also success!  

I) INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY:

        Curious enough...                                                            Thirst for knowledge

                                          To investigate/ an investigation

- To be curious enough to do something.

- To take an interest in something/ to be interested in something.

- To take an interest in everything

- To feel concerned about something

- To be anxious to learn

II) CONJECTURE: 

- To have a feeling that

- To have an idea that

- To have the impression that/ to feel that... 

- It turned out that...: It became in the end.

- It seems that.../ it looks as if.../ it looks as though.../ (It looks like...(:pus)

I'm sure you're curious to face the test... and you will do it quite satisfactorily! Go, for it! 

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1. Eager to participate and spurred oninterested inconcerned aboutI don't know by curiosity, Dennis volunteered to write a report about the different methods he had tried…



2. 'These kids have a genuine examinationstimulationthirst for knowledgeI don't know and will always expect you to go further and deeper about their favourite topics.'



3. 'If you are incuriousfollow up the cluespeculateI don't know, you’ll solve the problem quite easily.'



4. Whatever book I suggested, he wasn’t interested inanticipatingsupposedI don't know reading and wanted to be given comics.



5. 'Well, anticipateexpectedassuming thatI don't know he had told me the truth, he won’t pay you back before the end of next month.'



6. AnxiouslyIncuriouslyHypotheticallyI don't know, you’ll finish your work before you’re given another assignment! At least, that’s how it should be!



7. Follow up a clueMake enquiriesMake a guessI don't know, close your eyes and when you open them again, you’ll see what’s happening.



8. I’m not really concerned aboutspurred onexaminingI don't know what she demands.She’ll be given the same amount as everyone.



9. Paul finds it quite concernedstimulatingassumingI don't know to play against better competitors. He thinks it’s the best way to improve his level.



10. If I were you, I’d check onassumestimulateI don't know the requirements before I apply to the position.