Imagine while you are talking to an acquaintance, you make a hand gesture that the acquaintance does not understand. The acquaintance asks you what you are intending to communicate by your hand gesture. In this kind of a situation your friend is .

Using an interpretive question to try to learn your purpose

Explanation:

Interpretive question is being asked when we want to find out what lies behind something that someone said or did. They are mostly used when we want to keep the discussion going.

In the given situation, since the acquaintance does not understand, he, by asking you what are you intending to communicate, wants to find out what lies in the back of your action with a goal to learn your purpose, in other words he wants to understand what were you trying to express with that specific hand gesture.

a: social security and social programs

stewards ice box was the purchase of alaska from russia and it was called that because people thought it was not a good idea to purchase alaska