answer

vastata

vastaus A response or reply; something say said or do done in reaction to a statement or question.

Her answer to his proposal was a slap in the face.

There is no simple answer to corruption.

There was no voice, nor any that answered.

She answers him as if she knew his mind.

(ux)

to answer a charge or accusation

Nobody answered when I knocked on the door.

Of course for publication in a newspaper, my palaeotype would not answer, but my glossotype would enable the author to give his Pennsylvania German in an English form and much more intelligibly.

Theobald spoke as if watches had half-a-dozen purposes besides time-keeping, but he could hardly open his mouth without using one or other of his tags, and "answering every purpose" was one of them.

The man must answer to his employer for the money entrusted to his care.

He has a lot to answer for.

Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law.

I wish she had answered her picture as well.

The use of dunder in the making of rum answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour.

The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon through them.

Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.

That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience.

If this but answer to my just belief, / I'll remember you.

As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

No man was able to answer him a word.

These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant.

The reasoning was not and could not be answered.

He answered my claim upon him.

The servant answered the bell.

This proud king (..) studies day and night / To answer all the debts he owes unto you.

I will (..) send him to answer thee.

And grievously hath Caesar answered it.

Money answereth all things.