consult (v.)

• advise
• bargain
• blow
• cogitate
• collogue
• confab
• confabulate
• confer
• consider
• counsel
• deliberate
• devour
• discuss
• dissipate
• drivel
• eat
• examine
• exhaust
• expend
• finish
• fritter
• huddle
• ingest
• interrogate
• negotiate
• palaver
• parley
• powwow
• question
• spend
• squander
• take
• treat