Answer
Answer noun - Something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question.
Knot
Knot noun - Something that requires thought and skill for resolution.
Usage example: mercy killing is generally seen as a matter fraught with legal and medical knots
How words are described
| particular | particular answer | particular knot |
| short | short answer | short knot |
| complex | complex answer | complex knot |
| original | original answer | original knot |
| Other adjectives: true, proper, top, single, simple, logical, actual, big, wrong. | ||
Common collocations
| problem | answer problem | knot problem |
Both words in one sentence
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For the third riddle, he says the answer is "a blade", and Nygma says no, the solutions to all the riddles were based on famous riddles of antiquity, and the answer to that one was "a knot" as in the Gordian Knot.
Source: Cutting the Knot -
Compare with Cutting the Knot, which is essentially violence being used as an answer - though the success varies.
Source: Murder Is the Best Solution -
They are rather elemental, and this can have a detrimental effect on more complicated social interaction since their answer to everything is Cutting the Knot.
Source: Guardian Entity
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