Answer
Answer verb - To speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction.
Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
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
Both words in one sentence
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More strangely, Linda sees him as well, but delivers her answer to him, "yes", on the bridge to help him move on.
Source: Light Novel / Golden Time -
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.
Source: Film / Tremors 2: Aftershocks - 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.
Source: Hard Work Hardly Works
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