Answer
Answer verb - To find an answer for through reasoning.
Usage example: try to answer this riddle
Guess and answer are semantically related in acknowledgement topic. In some cases you can use "Guess" instead a verb "Answer".
Guess
Guess verb - To form an opinion from little or no evidence.
Answer and guess are semantically related in acknowledgement topic. Sometimes you can use "Answer" instead a verb "Guess".
How words are described
| best | best answer | best guess |
| exact | exact answer | exact guess |
| common | common answer | common guess |
| short | short answer | short guess |
| Other adjectives: original, true, correct, reasonable, accurate, likely, obvious, popular, logical, actual, real, wrong, bad, easy, incorrect, plausible, next, last, previous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The three-answer questions can fall into this, by having one answer that's fairly easy to dismiss, and two which are so close together it has to be a guess.
Source: Unexpectedly Obscure Answer - You can probably guess "what are robots made of" for yourself; while the game has never mentioned that the answer is metal and magic, the other three answers are obviously wrong.
Source: Unexpectedly Obscure Answer - Two contestants (one signified by a buzzer, the other by a bell) competed to answer general-knowledge questions, with a wrong answer giving the opponent a free guess.
Source: Series / Winner Take All
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