Sentence:  What you were <WSD>looking</WSD> for ( unless you make a hobby of collecting old tennis rackets and fly screens ) eludes me , but to judge from phonograph records scattered about a fumed oak Victrola , you danced two tangos and a paso doble , which must have been fairly enervating in that milieu . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of