Answer and Perform

Answer

Answer verb - To do what is required by the terms of.

Usage example: I don't have a box cutter as such, but will this knife answer the purpose?

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

Perform verb - To carry through (as a process) to completion.

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Answer and perform are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Answer" instead a verb "Perform".

He gives up the ability to perform alchemy, which turns out to be the correct answer.

Source: Secret Test of Character
One episode in a retirement home had a woman perform a Mercy Kill on an elderly relative and tearfully ask Barnaby if it was the right thing to do, he doesn't have an answer.

Source: Sympathetic Murderer
And while they are perfectly good at the jobs they perform (and Doc is a Mad Scientist, which is an unusual role for a woman), both of them answer to men.

Source: Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality

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