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answer
What does answer mean?
answer (verb): to make a reply or response to.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use answer in a sentence?
- She didn't want to answer. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
- We answered that we would accept the invitation. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
- Answer the question. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce answer?
/ˈænsɚ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does answer come from?
From Middle English answeren, andswaren, answerien, from Old English andswarian, answarien (“to answer, to respond, to deny an allegation under oath”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of answer?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “answer” mean?
to become aware of; to observe
Not quite: that's what notice means.
to make a reply or response to
Right! That's what “answer” means.
be fully aware or cognizant of
Not quite: that's what realize means.
express the need or desire for
Not quite: that's what request means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “answer”?
reply
Right!
close
Not quite: close means something else.
thank
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start
Not quite: start means something else.
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