Answer
Answer verb - To speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction.
Leave
Leave verb - To cause to remain behind.
How words are described
| best | best answer | best leave |
| long | long answer | long leave |
| typical | typical answer | typical leave |
| short | short answer | short leave |
| Other adjectives: single, powerful, real, general, final, official, last, latter, previous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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I can leave you weak, limp, twisted, confused... If you want to live to see tomorrow, you answer to me, and you answer quickly.
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Reportedly, Dickens made ever-increasingly obvious hints to the ever-oblivious Andersen to leave, and refused to answer Andersen's correspondence when he'd gone - much to Andersen's confusion.
Source: The Thing That Would Not Leave -
Happens again in Episode 7 when Monaka reveals she knows who will be killed due to Makoto only to refuse to actually answer and instead leave.
Source: Anime / Dangan Ronpa 3
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