Answer
Answer noun - Something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question.
Explaining and answer are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Explaining" instead a noun "Answer".
Explaining
Answer and explaining are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Answer" instead a noun "Explaining".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Megaman is explaining that violence is not the answer when Roll shows up, and immediately resorts to violence.
Source: Violence Really Is the Answer - One student gives the answer that is correct under the usual assumptions, without actually explaining how he got to that answer.
Source: Dan Browned -
Her answer is to send him falling into some sharp rocks, explaining why he has an eyepatch in the later book.
Source: Literature / Graceling
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