Answer and Turn to

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

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Turn to is an antonym for answer.

Turn to verb - To use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage.

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Answer is an antonym for turn to in ask topic.

In The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird, when the young princes answer the Speaking Bird despite a warning, they turn to stone.

Source: Taken for Granite
Taken for Granite: When the young princes answer the Speaking Bird, despite a warning, they turn to stone.

Source: Literature / The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird
Sometimes the series gets cheeky by giving you a riddle with a numerical answer and asking you to turn to the page with that number.

Source: Literature / Lone Wolf

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