Answer and Play

Answer

Answer verb - To speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction.

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

Play verb - To engage in activity for amusement.

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Answer and play are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Answer" with "Play", this verbs are similar.

Nearby Words: played, playful, player, playfulness, playing

long	long answer	long play
short	short answer	short play
perfect	perfect answer	perfect play
original	original answer	original play
Other adjectives: straight, single, obvious, popular, actual, real, big, serious, bad, general, final, next, last, different, previous.

This trope comes into play whenever someone asks the question, but often someone will have an answer, or when Santa is shown to be real, we are given the actual answer.

Source: How Can Santa Deliver All Those Toys?
Evil Night: Konami's answer to House of the Dead, also allows three players to play at once, similar to Crypt Killer.

Source: Light Gun Game
Because this is essentially an answer of a long overdue fair play, this instead did the nearly impossible: It rescues the dog from being one of the most infamous video game Scrappies.

Source: Take That, Scrappy!

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