Answer
Answer noun - Something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question.
Order
Order noun - The way objects in space or events in time are arranged or follow one another.
How words are described
| exact | exact answer | exact order |
| particular | particular answer | particular order |
| usual | usual answer | usual order |
| short | short answer | short order |
| Other adjectives: right, direct, perfect, original, true, correct, proper, single, simple, actual, real, wrong, general, final, official, next, last, intended, different, previous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The order of the colors to answer his riddles is the same order that is needed to activate the Chrono Cross to defeat the last boss.
Source: Video Game / Chrono Cross - In The Bible, Judges 14, when some Philistines find that they are unable to answer a riddle Samson has asked them, they threaten his wife in order to get the answer.
Source: An Offer You Can't Refuse - Gothwrain is egging Theodore Diggers on to try to kill him on purpose in order to enable his own Thanatos Gambit that he's been plotting for at least years; violence is exactly the answer he wants.
Source: Violence Really Is the Answer
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