Question and Tell

Question

Question verb - To demand proof of the truth or rightness of.

Tell is an antonym for question.

Tell

Tell verb - To give an oral or written account of in some detail.

Question is an antonym for tell in communicate topic.

Nearby Words: telling, teller

Common collocations

person question person tell person
character question character tell character
man question man tell man
people question people tell people
Other words: someone, way, characters, story, mother, feelings.

Both words in one sentence

  • Inevitably, whoever has just been told that Cho is blind will start to wave their hand in front of Cho's face to test him (which Cho can sense because of the Tao) only for Cho to catch the hand in question and tell the person off while complaining about everyone doing it.
  • Armor-Piercing Question Not technically a question, but "You need to tell me what happened to Scott" certainly counts in X-Men: The Last Stand.
  • Creepy Crows Because they are so visually similar, in many visual media it can be hard to tell whether the bird in question is meant to be a raven or a crow.
    Source: Creepy Crows
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