Answer and Help

Answer

Answer verb - To speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction.

Help and answer are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Help" instead a verb "Answer".

Help

Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

Answer and help are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Answer" instead a verb "Help".

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

Mutual synonyms

How words are described

best best answer best help
better better answer better help
direct direct answer direct help
proper proper answer proper help
Other adjectives: likely, actual, real, big, serious, useful, immediate, general, possible, final, unexpected, last, soviet.

Common collocations

time answer time help time
way answer way help way

Both words in one sentence

  • Light Novel / Golden Time More strangely, Linda sees him as well, but delivers her answer to him, "yes", on the bridge to help him move on.
  • Film / Tremors 2: Aftershocks Answer Cut: Earl suggests they might need help in hunting the Graboids, but Grady thinks anyone would have to be crazy to want to help them.
  • Orthodox Christianity gives us such an answer: hard work is necessary, but it only works if it makes you humble see your sins, which you can't help but do.
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