Answer and Yes

Answer

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

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

Yes

Yes adverb - Used to express agreement.

Answer and yes are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Answer" instead a verb "Yes".

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Double-Edged Answer When Ned Flanders asks Reverend Lovejoy if God is testing him, Lovejoy answers, "Short answer, yes with an if; long answer, no with a but."
  • Double-Edged Answer The problem is that the answer to her question can be yes and no at the same time without either answer being factually inaccurate.
  • A rhetorical question used in place of "yes" when "yes" is the obvious answer to a given question.
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